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Eugene Vinitsky

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TLDR: A PhD is a significant commitment that can offer unique opportunities for intellectual growth, research training, and career development - but it's not for everyone and shouldn't be. Here's a couple of models of when a PhD can be valuable. A PhD is a weird thing. For many people, it's a very, very long-term decision that they make at age 21. At the end of it, you're a world-expert on a very specific sub-area. The person you are at the end of it is so distinct from who you are going in that it's almost impossible to envision. It's also hard to get a sense of the pros and cons of a PhD! So I wrote this up to help people think about some buckets where I think it makes sense to get a PhD. I've also sort of ranked them by how good of a reason I think they are. A PhD offers a rare opportunity to go wildly deep on a question that fascinates you. If you just genuinely have a need to learn something about the universe that people don't know yet, I can't imagine a better reason to do a PhD

Eugene Vinitsky --> Reasons to do a PhD TLDR: A PhD is a significant commitment that can offer unique opportunities for intellectual growth, research training, and career development - but it's not for everyone and shouldn't be. Here's a couple of models of when a PhD can be valuable. A PhD is a weird thing. For many people, it's a very, very long-term decision that they make at age 21. At the end of it, you're a world-expert on a very specific sub-area. The person you are at the end of it is so distinct from who you are going in that it's almost impossible to envision. It's also hard to get a

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