JT Taylor
3 min readJun 14, 2021

Shrodinger’s Doctorate

Ok, so I’m going to tell you something academia trained me to do that is actually maddening and terrible and limiting.

I’m gonna call it “Shroedinger’s Doctorate” but I’m gonna mess with the idea. I’m using the thought experiment loosely.

Here we go:

If someone gives me information or asks me to follow their “serious” content or their podcast, etc, and I’m enthusiastically interested…

JT Taylor

JT Taylor has a doctorate in early modern English and early American literature, focusing on historiography and critical theory. But wants to talk about more.