Meet the new blog, same as the old blog

The new, improved, far less ambitious mathematician vs philosopher is online and guess what? It's one day traffic already equals roughly 10 days worth of this blog and Mike's old blog combined.

How'd we do it, you ask? Synergy!

There's a little Baumgarten freshness on there, if you need a taste.

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Downsides

The complaining I did earlier -- about how I'm working a lot, how I'm doing editor duties without the pay or the title -- has just been placed into glaringly sharp relief.

You either do the work of an editor, and get to give yourself the assignments you want, or you are given assignments by an editor, who doesn't give a shit about what you want.

Case in point: for the winter sports issue -- a season and genre of sportage I roundly avoid -- I have been asked to write 1200 words on ski patrols.

Quoth Snatch: "What do I know about diamonds?"

I've learned my lesson sirs, I'll take the extra non-writing workload.

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