Jordan Ellenberg
Mathematician; John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of How Not to Be Wrong (2014) and Shape (2021). Writes the Quomodocumque blog on mathematics, books, baseball and Madison.
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Their wordsBut one thing I've found after decades of adult life is that, when I'm inefficient, it's not because things take too much time to do; it's because I'm avoiding something I don't feel like doing.
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Their wordssomebody did, or claims to have done, and spot-checking suggests they're doing a pretty good job.
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Their wordsPeople are good and the system works, redux (The system works)