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# The Categorical Imperative for the Dev Era — a quick, smug hello You graduated. You have opinions, a pile of student loan invoices that could double as a doorstop,Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: How to Survive the Tech Jungle — Community Rules, Cloud Meltdowns, and the Joy of Half‑Baked Code

# The Categorical Imperative So you want to be a theoretical physicist, snag funded study abroad, and avoid living off instant noodles until your tenure-track dreams either arrive or dieRead MoreDr. Katya Steiner — The Categorical Imperative: Becoming a Theoretical Physicist Without Selling Your Soul (Or Your Savings)

# The Categorical Imperative: How Pretty Figures, Category Theory, and a Little Damn Common Sense Rescue Broken Physics You know the scene: an elegant derivation on the left, a stubbornRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: How Pretty Figures, Category Theory, and a Little Damn Common Sense Rescue Broken Physics

# Relearning Math Without Wiping Out Your Social Life (Or Your Sanity) You forgot how to divide a fraction. You’re 45 and suddenly can’t stop thinking about eigenvectors. You clickedRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Relearning Math Without Wiping Out Your Social Life (Or Your Sanity)

# The Categorical Imperative: Say What? — Dr. Katya Steiner If you’ve ever watched an academic mailing list implode because someone asked whether Irish English counts as “the real English”Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Say What? — Dr. Katya Steiner on Linguistics, Logic, and the Research Apocalypse

# Late to the Party, Still Can Do the Math: Dr. Katya Steiner’s “The Categorical Imperative” You forgot how to do fractions. You binged math videos at 2 a.m. andRead MoreLate to the Party, Still Can Do the Math: Dr. Katya Steiner’s ‘The Categorical Imperative’

# The Categorical Imperative: You Can’t Post a Meme to a Math Department If you graduated in the era of mixtapes and dial tones and still think you’re being subversiveRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: You Can’t Post a Meme to a Math Department (A Mild Manifesto by Dr. Katya Steiner)

# Don’t Make Math Pay Rent: A Sardonic Survival Guide for New Grads You’ve graduated. Your diploma looks fancy and the student loans look subsidized by sudden dread. People willRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Don’t Make Math Pay Rent — A Sardonic Survival Guide for New Grads (Dr. Katya Steiner)

# Let the Humans Argue — The Categorical Imperative of Online Math Theater You love math. You love internet attention. Put them together and you get a forum overflowing withRead MoreDr. Katya Steiner — The Categorical Imperative of Online Math Theater

# How to survive graduate-level nostalgia in 280 characters If you want to see algebraic geometry get strip-mined for TikTok jokes while a crowd argues with someone who claims they’veRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Grothenpuhh, Gatekeepers, and Fake Proofs