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Serious fun

It's easy to think of being serious and having fun as opposite sides of a spectrum. The problem is that 'being serious' has many unrelated meanings, for example: - Serious as in somber or solemn.

Or - much more likely - the results are not real, and we should either be a) helping this person understand where they screwed up in their methods and data analysis, or b) kicking them out for fraud. Experiences like writers block can be caused by the judging side being too strong, so that ideas are strangled before they can develop. Where you don't have to pretend that your ideas and works are perfect, so that we can talk about tradeoffs and challenges instead of trading sales pitches.

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