John Carlos Baez on Nostr: npub1qpuhh…jd95n npub1g7fn6…c25j2 - I should have been a lot clearer: I wasn't ...
npub1qpuhh3jqmxl42sa3668qdqf4pcfuay3gykvn74zxvyfxg79wwwlqtjd95n (npub1qpu…d95n) npub1g7fn68fh5vawe2hz2kapwj0239kyry436yxelspeq4wtjy72cfnqwc25j2 (npub1g7f…25j2) - I should have been a lot clearer: I wasn't suggesting Joe say anything false in his research statement, I just meant he should not treat it as the place to bare his heart and talk about everything he's interested in doing. He needs to leave out most of that and focus on how his most impactful work has already transformed the landscape of applied category theory. It's much more impressive to talk about that.
"Every time someone asks what I'm currently working on, I'm frozen because immediately I'm confronted with a list of 10+ projects I've unwisely mentally listed as "active"."
If I talked about all the projects I'm working on in a research statement, people would laugh at it: the mathematics of tuning systems and modes, the splitting principle, the moduli space of triangles, the work and life of Hoàng Xuân Sính, separable algebras in Grothendieck's Galois theory.... I would leave all that out and focus on applying category theory to modeling in epidemiology.
"Every time someone asks what I'm currently working on, I'm frozen because immediately I'm confronted with a list of 10+ projects I've unwisely mentally listed as "active"."
If I talked about all the projects I'm working on in a research statement, people would laugh at it: the mathematics of tuning systems and modes, the splitting principle, the moduli space of triangles, the work and life of Hoàng Xuân Sính, separable algebras in Grothendieck's Galois theory.... I would leave all that out and focus on applying category theory to modeling in epidemiology.