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Bliss, and So Much More

On ignorance and doing a Ph.D.

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Tim Gorichanaz
Mar 21, 2023
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I’m Tim Gorichanaz, and this is Ports, a newsletter about design and ethics. This is a special post for paid subscribers only: an essay I wrote in February 2016 while I was getting my Ph.D.

I was an undergrad when I first saw Matt Might’s illustration of a Ph.D. You’ve probably seen it by now. It starts with a circle, representing all of human knowledge.…

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