fatvegan

I've been very good at university this semester. I've done nearly all my readings, and all of my homework. I actually don't think I've been this good since first year. But just this week I decided I needed to spend more time reading about the real world, and economics in particular. I need to remind myself why I'm studying economics at all, because the content of the courses won't give you any hints.

So I subscribed to a bunch of economics blogs, several of them suggested by Denzil. Most of them are interesting. Several of them are quite brilliant. They all seem to do a very good job of communicating sort of moderately interesting ideas in a lucid manner. Lucidity is one of the things I crave most. Lucidity, and a brain that actually retains some of the stuff it discovers.

Despite the sporadic pangs of cognitive inadequacy I've definitely enjoyed a last few days of stimulation. However, it meant that every time I sat down to study I instead ended up reading about real world problems that were much more useful. Useful in the big picture sense, but perhaps not on the semester-long scale. Unless the constant reminders that economics actually is useful mean I don't drop out of university. Assuming not dropping out is a good thing.

Possibly I need to renew my old New Year's Resolution to spend less time with humans and more time with computers and books. I have a feeling I would discover problems with that approach too if I pushed it to the extreme. In the absence of the sort of mind and time management skills that might make learning simply a process of mathematical optimisation, I'm a little lost as to how to balance these things. I suppose I'll just have to fuddle my way through it with trusty trial and error.