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Is there any chance you were exposed to COVID at any point? I know there’s an association between COVID-19 and clotting events (even for otherwise asymptomatic individuals)!
Alternatively exposure to some COVID vaccines seems to also increase risk of clotting
(sorry for a dumb comment but I tried to match the surprise value and the significance of this finding; you will not believe what comes next!)
I'm in academia and had been idealizing overwork for quite a while ("the noble goal of devoting your life to science!"), but now have to fend off becoming cynical about the culture (increasingly after a parent with a blue collar-company died shortly before their well-earned retirement, stress played a role here).
I have met various of these types, obviously not all scientists are like this, but they seem to become more frequent the more one raises up the ladder:
* spending years in an excitingly different foreign country.. on a desk, experiencing little of what the country has to offer (think spending 10 years in California but never visiting Yosemite or the Grand Ganyon), sometimes condescending when told about travel experiences in the same country
* working up to the point where they appear to be in psychological pain and lost authentic interest
* complete tunnel vision about work
* abusive behaviour because of stress
* talking suicide in project meetings
* continuous smart drug usage
* lunch with them is usually cynical, edgy and negative
* regret that they've lost their 20s to academic work
Academically, these are often quite successful people whose ideas and scientific results are admired. I'd like to stay in academia but fear I will be erased from the system if I don't pay the same price. Is this view too negative? Can someone offer a different perspective here?
Could some older users share their (anecdotal) experiences and perspective on this topic? How did continuous heavy overwork pay off for people you have observed (or yourself)? Is this just temporary and can be overcome by smarter decisions about where to allocate energy?
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Ah yes, the good old "my anecdote trumps science" post on Hacker News. If this happens on Hacker News, no wonder the rest of the world is even worse. "Two systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the latest evidence were conducted for this study. Data from 37 studies on ischemic heart disease covering more than 768 000 participants and 22 studies on stroke covering more than 839 000 participants were synthesized. The…
> If this happens on Hacker News, no wonder the rest of the world is even worse. Is there any reason to assume HN should be better then anyone else?
However, this is just my impression from reading comments here for a few years. I may as well be wrong. Smart people do have their own blindspots, too.
Edit: I noticed you were downvoted, and I disagree with that. Your question is reasonable.
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Ah yes, the good old "my anecdote trumps science" post on Hacker News. If this happens on Hacker News, no wonder the rest of the world is even worse. "Two systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the latest evidence were conducted for this study. Data from 37 studies on ischemic heart disease covering more than 768 000 participants and 22 studies on stroke covering more than 839 000 participants were synthesized. The…
> If this happens on Hacker News, no wonder the rest of the world is even worse. Is there any reason to assume HN should be better then anyone else?
We are living in a culture of overwork because work (esp. desk work) has lost all boundaries. I'm in academia and had been idealizing overwork for quite a while ("the noble goal of devoting your life to science!"), but now have to fend off becoming cynical about the culture (increasingly after a parent with a blue collar-company died shortly before their well-earned retirement, stress played a role here). I have met…
I see a lot of people doing over time also eating a lot of delivery food. Usually working a lot is a great excuse for eating rubbish.
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> If this happens on Hacker News, no wonder the rest of the world is even worse. Is there any reason to assume HN should be better then anyone else?
Generally, HN people are more educated and better trained in logical thinking (most being engineers of some sort or in other professions that require a bit more thinking). Hence, the GP's expectation, I assume. However, this is just my impression from reading comments here for a few years. I may as well be wrong. Smart people do have their own blindspots, too. Edit: I noticed you were downvoted, and I disagree with t…
Very very often, people start with very wild assumptions and then make wild implications on them, even the ones that are directly contradicted by article they comment on or simple search.