Winning the Horace Mann Medal | Dr. Brian Keating

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Our conversations with astrophysicist Brian Keating Ph.D. are always wide-ranging, topical, and a little spicy (served with a side of bad puns). Today's conversation begins amidst the 5-week University of California Graduate Student Union strike, where Brian was unable to communicate with his graduate research assistants without a picket line being crossed. The discussion moves back to familiar territory from our prior encounters: imposter syndrome, winning and losing prestigious awards, and whether it's more charitable to donate anonymously or influence others to do so publicly.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger show.
0:10.2	That's because they think I'm what?
0:21.6	That's because your students, your part Republican, part Republican.
0:24.9	Yeah, I think I am part Republican.
0:27.1	I'm part independent, part Democrat, probably.
0:32.9	Students don't like anything other than progressive.
0:36.0	You know, so funny is that we just are in the middle of a strike.
0:40.8	The graduate students, you remember being a graduate student, wasn't really like a lucrative
0:45.6	career and it's true still today as when you were studying, you know, category theory
0:52.0	way back in the day.
0:53.6	But this time, the United Auto workers have formed a union for graduate students at the
1:01.2	University of California and they've been on strike for a month and they're not getting
1:05.8	paid and they're not teaching classes and they're not taking classes.
1:10.2	But you know how recently the New York Times employees went on strike.
1:15.2	Did you hear that?
1:16.2	Yeah.
1:17.2	Yeah.
1:18.2	So Elon Musk tweeted out, woke versus woke, you know, the, you know, the woke right
1:23.6	is the New York Times are striking against the woke employer at the New York Times.
1:28.6	And it's very similar with, you know, graduate students are striking against professors who
1:32.7	used to be graduate students, all of whom are in the same persuasion politically, you
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