Diana Craciun

Stuck Between Two Options? Try This Simple Imagination Exercise Treat Decision-Making More Like a Playground and Less Like a Battlefield

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What It’s Really Like to Attend an Academic Conference From nervous rehearsals to speaker dinners: demystifying the academic conference.

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In the Footsteps of One of Japan’s Greatest Novelists How Visiting the Places That Shaped Natsume Soseki Changed How I Read Him

I love Natsume Soseki's novels. So much so, that I decided to go visit some places he went to, aiming to get a better understanding of his work. Here's my article outlining how going to those places deepened my appreciation of his novels: medium.com/japonica-pub...

Can Imagining Help Us Make Good Decisions? Can Imagination Help Us Make Good Decisions? How a philosophy paper helped me realise I wasn’t using the imagination well Our lives are dominated by constant decision-making: what should I have for …

Here is my latest article on whether the imagination can help us make better decisions, based on a philosophy paper by Amy Kind. The paper changed how I now deliberate about potentially moving to Japan: medium.com/philosophyto...

What Starting the Year with Failure Taught Me About Goal-Setting Perhaps Not All Goals Need to Be SMART

Happy new year! Here is a new article on how I started the year with failure, and what that taught me about goal-setting: medium.com/@diana.c10/w...

you should be able to take off work because your book is getting to the good part

Natural Deduction, or How to Improve Your Reasoning Muscles Sometimes what we take to be obvious may be a fallacy

Philosophy students often dislike natural deduction - or formal proofs. However, there is a lot to learn from them, and here is my modest attempt at making natural deduction digestible and (dare I say) fun: medium.com/philosophyto...

Metacognition, or the Science of Self-Knowledge Just how is it that our brains are able to know themselves?

Here is my newest Medium article, this time on the science of metacognition - or self-knowledge. Hope you enjoy: medium.com/philosophyto...

What Is the Role of Academic Teaching Assistants (TAs)? TAs aren’t just here to mark your essays. They’re the hidden engine of your university learning experience.

Have you ever wondered what the role of the TA actually is? Here is a brief explanation of what our role actually is (in academic settings): medium.com/@diana.c10/7...

How Our Emotional Reactions to Fiction Lead to Self-Knowledge Next time a novel or a tv show brings you to tears, it may be a good time to reflect.

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How Our Emotional Reactions to Fiction Lead to Self-Knowledge Next time a novel or a tv show brings you to tears, it may be a good time to reflect.

Here is my new article on how fiction can lead to self-knowledge. This article is a summary of one of my forthcoming papers: medium.com/philosophyto...

Started using a Hobonichi Planner! - Click to view on Ko-fi Follow Diana.C on Ko-fi

Here is a behind the scenes of my recent Hobonichi system (I have two more pictures in addition to this one). I talk a bit about the difficulties of planning your week as a PhD researcher. #KofiExclusiveChallenge
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Sometimes it feels like they're shooting a machine gun at my balloon....😂

This 1928 Japanese Bisexual Novel is Revolutionary Given its bisexual characters and four-way love story, it’s definitely far from your average early 20th century novel.

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This 1928 Japanese Bisexual Novel is Revolutionary Given its bisexual characters and four-way love story, it’s definitely far from your average early 20th century novel.

This 1928 Japanese Bisexual Novel is Revolutionary

Falling for Mishima: Why Thirst for Love is a Must-Read Or how to write compelling characters

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Falling for Mishima: Why Thirst for Love is a Must-Read Or how to write compelling characters

Yukio Mishima is truly a master of writing, and I write about it through the lens of one of his less famous novels, Thirst for Love:

AI-Generated Comments: The Newest Form of Spam Navigating comment sections just became more difficult, too.

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AI-Generated Comments: The Newest Form of Spam Navigating comment sections just became more difficult, too.

On platforms like Medium, I've noticed this disturbing trend towards AI generated comments... medium.com/@diana.c10/a...

I Taught Philosophy in Prison — Here is How it Went My prejudice was shattered at every corner.

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I Taught Philosophy in Prison — Here is How it Went My prejudice was shattered at every corner.

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I haven’t worked on my PhD since last year. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Set Couple’s New Year’s Resolutions to Keep Your Relationship Strong We Started This Tradition on January 1st — and It Might Just Be Our New Favourite

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Set Couple’s New Year’s Resolutions to Keep Your Relationship Strong We Started This Tradition on January 1st — and It Might Just Be Our New Favourite

Why you should write couple's new year's resolutions with your partner (and a blueprint): medium.com/@diana.c10/s...

I just woke up from precisely that nightmare 😅

Books to Look Out for in 2025 (and Some Books I Enjoyed in 2024) Here is what I can’t wait to read next year (and some books I read in 2024 that I’m still thinking about).

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Books to Look Out for in 2025 (and Some Books I Enjoyed in 2024) Here is what I can’t wait to read next year (and some books I read in 2024 that I’m still thinking about).

Here is my list of books I can't wait for in 2025: medium.com/books-are-ou... #books

No worries! I think that both are absolutely fine and it depends on what you are most comfortable with.
It's interesting that 'how I' gets more views! Maybe people are overall more interested in hearing about other people's experiences 🤔

Personally, I find that ‘how to‘ implies that there is a ‘correct’ way to do it, so I would go for something like ‘how I’. But at the same time ‘how to’ may be fine, especially if followed by ‘like a PhD student’ or something like that. (E.g. how to read an article like a PhD student)