antidote,
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Everything I do academically is some combination of:

  • tiny to the point of unpublishability;
  • for someone else and not relevant to anything I’m doing;
  • wholly incorrect;
  • treading on someone’s toes.

Is it time to throw in the towel?

boarders,
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@antidote [not in a place to offer advice as I quit academia after not getting far] a PhD, postdoc, professorship etc. is not worth hating yourself over, it’s the number one truth of academia that no one will say - none of this is worth despising who you are or what you have to offer

Moreover, the important thing to do now is to cultivate your own taste and your own sense of what is valuable - start writing up the “unpublishable results” and I bet you’ll see how once you flesh everything out and expand all the natural examples explaining what you have, it becomes a fully publishable result and one you can be happy with

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