Posted by Anthony on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 – 7:53 pm
Advice is interesting. Often given, rarely taken. Generally speaking the person who is giving the advice (the “advisor”) is doing it with the sincere intention of influencing the recipient of the advice (the “advisee”) into acting (or not acting) in a more thoughtful way than they are intending, but usually, in my experience at either end of the advisor-advisee continuum, the advisee will do what they were going to do anyway.
Does this mean that the advice was useless? No! Now when everything goes to hell the advisee will be more easily able to determine the reason. Instead of lying there whimpering “I don’t understand! What went wrong? It hurts!” they will be able to say “Well, I guess [advisor] was right! I sure learned something!” (if they are still alive).
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Posted by Anthony on Monday, June 7, 2010 – 7:05 pm
I have been asked how I feel about quitting a lot over the last few weeks. It’s the most common thing for people to say to me right after “Congratulations!”. It is difficult to answer – it’s complicated, as they say on Facebook. On the one hand I am glad to be free of an environment that I had become eager to leave and excited to be out in the world again, on the other I have given up an opportunity to continue to work on some fascinating and significant projects with some great people as well as any financial security I had.
But what better way to express such a complicated mélange of emotion than through a poem? And so I present:
My Feelings
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Posted by Anthony on Friday, June 4, 2010 – 5:52 pm
It’s been a little over two weeks since I quit my job. What have I been doing? Well, very little, really.
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Posted by Anthony on Monday, May 31, 2010 – 1:19 pm
Recently my friend Melanie successfully defended her PhD thesis in London. It was to do with medical geography, specifically regarding Tuberculosis. In celebration, I wrote her this sonnet…
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