My first paper was https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9512055v1 which eventually got published in Physical Review E but the abstract for a talk I gave at the March Meeting of the APS caught the eye of a reporter at Science News so I had the cover story one week, I think before the real publication.
The magazine printed a photo I took of Ron Maimon crumpling paper on the sofa of my office with an apparatus that I invented. Ron never completed his PhD on string theory but he eventually became a notorious 9/11 "truther" and conspiracy theorist.
Thus said, PR's can look like narcissism .. those who call it out are some of the prigs Uncle Paul warned us about :)
Schizotypes too.. it's the peer-unreviewed grandiosity i suppose. what would Kohut say?
Wish I'd discovered Ron earlier. His *overflow throwaways make me want to mine his conspiracy theories :) hope somebody addressing his emotional holes RN
If I had to guess your ex a Borderline. Glad dang concurs on the method.. (?) if that kinda helps/works it'd be worth internalizing
Equivalently I'd have to deal with the (situational?) emo holes associated with Stripe before I can internalize "their" (alien) way of thinking[0] :) but maybe you already have more experience there:
https://xcancel.com/patrickc/status/1848393059559502177
Stripe acquires Stablecoin s-u Bridge
Fun thing of his to equate htsc with sc. It's one of those things nobody has to or will shout about when they've got it
[0] with Daub as a bedside reference/biblio
https://www.adriandaub.com/s/NOTES-What-Tech-Calls-Thinking....
bcraven•6mo ago
https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2025/fig-trees-convert...