Giovanni Gruni

@giovannigruni.bsky.social

Executive and university professor. Interested in global issues, law, finance, climate change, and world trade. 🌎Let’s be kind to each other.

There's some good advice in this thread, but I'm going to offer another take on #6 here: The "best" (i.e. most prestigious) program you get into might not be the best fit for you, and you can still have a great career, even if you decide not to put status above everything else.

Giovanni Gruni@giovannigruni.bsky.social · 10mo ago

6) If you are offered the opportunity to do a PhD or a master at Oxbridge, Harvard or Yale don’t thing twice. Go! 7) Smart work exists in academia as well. Just look for it. 8) Paradoxically the pace of innovation at work can be slower in academia than other businesses.

I finished my PhD 10 years ago here a few lessons I have learned after 10 years in academia. 1) If you don’t believe in yourself no matter what, this is not the business for you. 2) Only some universities give promotions to out of the box thinkers and disruptive thinkers. …

If the Reform Party plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain also abolishes settled status for EU citizens, that would be a breach of the withdrawal agreement, liable to lead to the EU retaliating by removing trade preferences.

Jimmy Kimmel returns tomorrow. This is an important victory for free speech. Remember that it was YOU all using your power TOGETHER that got a gigantic corporation to reverse itself. Bless everyone who participated in telling Mickey Mouse to fuck off.