It’s 150 million BCE and there’s not a single Shake Shack in sight. What are you going to do about it?
Imagine this scenario.
We’ve been thrown back in time to the Great Age of the Dinosaurs — the Mesozoic Era. Imagine the wonders of this long-extinct world, bounding with life so large that there’s no doubting our temporal distance from modern-day Kansas. Brachiosaurus necks swing resolutely between towering canopies. Terrible bipedal beasts dash across the horizon, presumably “on-the-hunt”. Our closest living ancestor is the shrew-like creature scurrying out of sight across the forest floor. There is so much to take in and even more to question. So let’s suspend our disbelief for a moment.
Where exactly are we? We’re on the prehistoric continent…
When you want something done right, sometimes, you have to do it yourself.
Never settle for a sub-par product. Ever.
Boring tasks suck. Boring, frustrating tasks suck more.
That’s why I particularly hate visiting most citation websites when writing papers. As a student, I’m constantly referencing other people’s work. While this is very important, it’s often much more difficult than necessary. Over the years, I’ve found myself in the same situation countless times:
- Staring at a long list of links that need to become citations
- Dodging pop-up Ads as I try to cite links in a sub-par citation engine
- Wasting 30 minutes to do something that should have taken 5 minutes
Even after the headache of watching pop-up Ads to…
Ade Balogun
Environmental Engineering, Columbia 2020. MSc. Candidate @ Imperial College London.
