Earlier exquisitors had shouted and ranted confessions out of people. Vorbis never did that. He just dug deep silences in front of them. “Small Gods” by Terry Pratchett The blog of “The Thesis Whisperer” is in my RSS feeds and for a good reason — she’s providing some very good content. Her latest piece is called “Feeding the crazy” and it’s well worth reading. It describes the story of a person who does a lot of work for his prof yet is kept out of the loop. There is no real communication between the prof and him. To make matters worse, he is also isolated from his colleagues. So even simple mistakes (like him seeing a piece a paper in the office printer that his prof forgot to give him) turn into incidents that disturb his peace of mind for days. Read the whole story and her comment on how important it is to manage the communication between a prof and the people who work for him/her. And that story struck a chord within me, actually two. Not because a simple non-issue like a forgotten piece of paper can cause three days of mental anguish. I mean, if you told [...]
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