Reflections on YTM
Epistemic status: low. I wrote this in an airport, in a fury, straight after YTM 2026 (the Young Topologists Meeting), most of which I spent nodding along to things I didn’t understand and suspect nobody else did either. Mostly it’s me rambling about a bad week, with maybe one real idea buried in it. The setup Imagine you’re a musician at a music festival. Everyone’s supposed to share their own composition, so that the others can appreciate it. ...