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Who you follow and interact with online is like creating your peer group. In my experience, your peer group is basically the single most important thing that shapes who you are, what you believe in, for what you strive. It's why my parents (and I'm sure many others) cared so much about who my friends were, whether any of them were a "bad influence". When you think about your educational experience, how much did you learn from your friends and peers, compared to your professors and teachers? Who influenced your values and behaviours more? I will readily admit that a lot of what motivated me in university was being around my friends who were keen on studying. We'd all get together multiple times a week to work on problem sets, discuss epsilon-deltas, and make jokes about Hausdorff spaces. And, yes, some of it was the desire to appear smart in front of them or to showboat my wonderful jokes about algebraic groups. If you ask some people, they'd say that the networking and people you meet

sorbier Curating your social web back Author's note This essay's original form was a blog post in May 2024. Upon revisiting it a few months after writing it, I found the ideas worth organising and expanding into a better formed essay. Who you follow and interact with online is like creating your peer group. In my experience, your peer group is basically the single most important thing that shapes who you are, what you believe in, for what you strive. It's why my parents (and I'm sure many others) cared so much about who my friends were, whether any of them were a "bad influence". When you thin

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