Long time no see – and merry Christmas
by Benjamin on December 19, 2009
“Finally the holidays are here – now we can all get some work done.” This was the first thing my supervisor told me many years ago, and it is a sentiment strangely, perhaps cruelly, reflecting reality in academia. The suggested undertone that teaching isn’t really work is one I disagree with, but a diatribe on teaching is not my intent here, rather it is to declare – happily – that the blog will once more be running on full steam: The thesis is in a reasonable shape and the new job’s learning curve has flattened out, and with the holidays upon us there is once more time for the real work: Blogging.
There is much to catch up on, but for the moment I just want to wish everyone a merry Christmas and suggest a very nice piece in the X-mas Economist out this week on ‘Progress and its Perils‘ (generously available for free) on how good we actually have it, despite our search for positional goods.
Tags: blogging, Holidays, positional goods, The Economist, work, x-mas
That was quite the fast.
I’ve been growing weary scraping objectivity from my old Chomsky books and Krugman’s blog.. Happy holidays, indeed.
Sorry about that, and thank you for the kind words, puts a smile on my face and we are as ever happy to oblige :)