Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
Ken Covinsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It takes too much resources because often, well, actually, there's a derivation of it.
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That's where that's not true for.
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And then sometimes, you know, mentees like, you know, miss like really good ideas that maybe are not the right in their original form, but the right in another form.
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That's a fascinating question.
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I fear that I'll get in trouble with some of the people at UCSF who have lots of indirect costs to pay.
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But I would say the papers I am most proud of have been unfunded.
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And, you know, unfunded is a technical term because...
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Somebody was supporting my time and effort, but even then, sometimes it was done on nights and weekends.
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So that I think...
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I actually would I think I think good scholars in all fields disassociate to some extent the money and the work that you need the money to eat and live.
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But the ideas kind of have a weight of their own.
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And there probably should be you should probably take a little bit of your time to stuff that's actually not paid for, but important.
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But I think, Eric, one of the things about writing, and I think you used the word, Chris, think to write or write to think, is that thinking is the basic underpinnings of writing.
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Um, and good thinking and good writing are almost inseparable because it's one, I think one of the natural evolutions of ideas for those who aren't natural, most of us aren't natural expressors of ideas as ideas sort of tend to start out as this mush in our head.
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We kind of have this unvocalized sense of what we want to say, but we don't know how to communicate it until you can put it into words that others understand.
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Um,
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That idea is nothing more than what's in your head.
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It doesn't matter that you have a good idea if no one else can follow it or interpret it.
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So that I think part of learning to write, I mean, some tips I learned are often saying it out loud.
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Like if you're having a writer's block, trying to actually look in a mirror and say out loud what you're trying to say, that sometimes has this mysterious way of working because it forces you to explain it to like an anonymous somebody else.
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