Kind of incredible given my lifestyle that this is the first time I've broken a big bone...

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Some good personal news in these strange and turbulent times: I was just promoted to Associate Professor on indefinite Tenure, effective Aug 16 🥲 Immensely grateful to everyone who helped me get here - I won't list them since they know who they are 😊

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* Find that all books you can find approach the problem in exactly the same way, and this way is seemingly incompatible with how you understand the problem. * Imposter syndrome kicks in. Clearly your understanding is flawed at a fundamental level and you are not qualified to teach this. 2/

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* What you were doing is 100% correct. You just need to add a small qualifier to the name of a quantity to avoid confusion. * Imposter syndrome subdue. For a short while you can relax. Until next time. 4/4

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* Spend 3 days frantically reading everything you can find on the topic, hoping to learn where you went wrong. * Finally realise that the whole thing boils down to a minor nomenclature issue... 3/

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