Announcement: Why This Series and What It Is About

Postgraduate study in psychology can look like a formal stage of education: a curriculum, exams, publications, a dissertation. In reality, it is a much stranger and heavier experience. It is a long-distance route on which education does not pass beside the personality — it passes straight through it.

This series grew out of a desire to gather that experience into a coherent line. Not only to talk about how chapters and papers are written, but to show what happens inside a person: where discipline switches on, where burnout begins, where structure helps, and where people, rhythm, and a sense of meaning become what saves you.

These texts may be useful for people who:

1. are considering postgraduate study and want to understand it from the inside rather than from a brochure;
2. are already studying and trying not to lose themselves in the process;
3. are interested in growing up, professional formation, and inner transformation.

Below is the route through the whole series. You can read it in order, or enter at whichever point resonates with your own experience right now.

1. Announcement: Why This Series and What It Is About
2. What I Came From: Study, Barracks, Courses, Kitchen
3. A Book Begins with an Idea, a Dissertation with a Plan
4. An Ode to Specialization, or Why One Person Should Not Do Everything
5. Double Vision: Structure and Chaos, Science and Sleeplessness
6. Beyond Academic Writing. Part 1
7. Beyond Academic Writing. Part 2
8. Beyond Academic Writing. Part 3
9. The Value of Sterility, or How to Survive Academia
10. When a PhD Raps
11. Postgraduate Study and Bitcoin: Is There a Connection?
12. Personal Branding as a Design Project of the Self
13. The People Without Whom It Would Not Have Worked
14. Postgraduate Study as a Mirror of Self-Knowledge

What interests me in this series is not only academic form, but the question of what remains with a person after passing through such a school. That is why scientific perspective, everyday detail, inner struggle, systematic work, and the attempt to preserve one's own voice will stand next to one another here.