Peter Webster on Nostr: It's curious how far apart one's estimation of one's work can be from that of ...
It's curious how far apart one's estimation of one's work can be from that of readers. One rather slight paper, written solo after three collaborators dropped out, and nearly abandoned more than once, is widely cited, more so than the three next most cited things combined. A book, the product of a decade's work and close to my heart, has hardly landed at all, six years on.
*shrug emoji*
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