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To explain what?

On a completely different note, I just saw pic related and really didn't see that coming!
>It’s not just that nobody would ever read what I did; there was also that 1) I didn’t even select the problem I was working on, and 2) I realized that I didn’t actually want to do research. The thing I actually did in grad school when left to my own devices was much closer to distilling (Distill); understanding things carefully, compressing them, and then explaining them clearly. And I was frustrated by the sense that academic mathematics didn’t seem to have a place for me to do that professionally.
>he short and unsatisfying answer is that I was good at it and I liked doing things I was good at. There are other more specific things I like about it but it’s unclear whether they were causal, but I can describe some of them anyway.