“Academia teaches us to ask questions like Shay’s — and generally, to answer them ourselves. So we find parallels and influences that make sense on paper without worrying too much about whether they’re actually true.”
John August, on what has definitely, most definitely, been for me the hardest part of my transition from graduate school to professional life.
It’s when I stopped making up truths out of thin air, or really, when I stopped fundamentally valuing those truths, that I kind of ran out of things to say.
