How did you go from neuroscience to writing for a tech company? - Courtney Nash

Jul 21, 2020

Here are some more questions we discuss:

• How did Ochem break you?
• Why is organic chemistry so hard?
• What is the neuroscience of cross country skiing?
• What living environment can you not stand (geographical)?
• How do you pick a career?
• Did academia stifle you?
• What is the model in neuroscience right now that you suspect is wrong yet everyone still believes?
• What is the system of memory that helps us build physical skills? What about other skills?
• Why does it help someone learn to give them a visualization?
• What is the emotional flavor you experience when you learn something new?
• Why is it important to learn Ochem?
• What's the deal with false memories? What is the neuroscience of it?
• Has anyone started to do virtual dissections on Zoom?
• Which is the school that is most open hearted when it comes to teaching cognitive science?
• This gets into mimetics
• How have you adapted to homeschooling your kids?
• What's the deal with abstraction from a neuroscience perspective?
• How have small liberal schools adapted to the recent change in higher education practices?
• Why is it important for your education to be intimate?
• What are the parts of studying neuroscience that you have to do in person?
• Are liberal arts colleges going to survive COVID 19?
• What things need to be abstracted away to teach someone something online?
• What is the difference between neuroscience and neurophilosophy?
• What is the divide between philosophy and psychology?
• What does it mean to be a reductionist?
• What is it we don't understand about neuroscience?
• Can we change the fact that scientific papers aren't written for the general public?
  • Is that a good idea?
• Why does someone (or myself) need an editor?
• Read "the fourth draft" or "on writing well"
• What is missing in this thing I just wrote?