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A very belated New Year post
As I round the bend in my second year of grad school, I feel an ever-increasing weight on how I spend my time. Increasingly, it feels like doing something is a kind of self-definition. Describing myself as studying political economy, or behavioral-political economy, or history-and-political economy feels like a more deliberate choice associated with different potential futures. Reading a book no longer feels just for fun; it’s also to be used in writing some future paper or as a spark of an idea. In a way, when all my time is free time, all my time is also work. Hardly an original thought,…
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