>That insistence on reminding everyone, all the time, that he has a doctorate is seriously awkward, though.
He didn't even use it until fairly recently. In the past 3-4 years? I think he had his doctorate even before he joined Anandtech. He only started using it because people were asking him why he didn't put his Dr. in his title.
And it means a lot in different context. Basically it could be used as the biggest middle finger to marketing and PR department to STFU and get a proper engineer to talk to me. Especially in the context of foundry where his research was on Electrochemistry.
I'd add that aside from my byline on AT, the only other places I have the Dr. is on Twitter, and on my business card. Everyone else introduces me that way. If they ask how to introduce me, I say whatever works best.
For some reason people equate this to me shoving it down their throats. There was a big reddit thread about it recently.
> If they ask how to introduce me, I say whatever works best. For some reason people equate this to me shoving it down their throats.
I don't know about "strong opinions in both directions" (I don't think I've ever met someone who felt strongly that an academic doctorate title should never be mentioned?) but there are certainly some people who are serious about "ring-knocking" and will get super offended if you don't say it, and given the 'do whatever' instruction, people may be defaulting to putting it in, just in case. Perhaps, again, not even out of fear you'll jump on them, as much as someone else might.
In other words, it might not be you so much as the other assholes.
As a fan and random stranger from the Internet, your Anandtech byline and twitter handle are how your public persona introduces himself to me several times per months over the course of multiple years.
Your actual person I of course know nothing about and pass neither judgement nor praise for. That is none of my business!
Might be a little bit of a rediculous request, but do you have an image of your buisness card? I have begun to create my own, and I am wondering what others' in tech look like.
My advice is to put your head shot on it. I have on mine. Going to events and getting 100 business cards and not remembering what people look like - but they all know what I look like.
imo Steve at gamers nexus is the best substitute for the objective, thorough coverage I used to get from anandtech. he doesn't always dive quite as deep, but his coverage is very prompt. his coverage is also a bit more consumer focused, so you do miss some enterprise/DC hardware coverage that anandtech might eventually get around to publishing. on the other hand, he does some really good reviews on stuff like cases and cooling that anandtech doesn't seem to have time for.
He didn't even use it until fairly recently. In the past 3-4 years? I think he had his doctorate even before he joined Anandtech. He only started using it because people were asking him why he didn't put his Dr. in his title.
And it means a lot in different context. Basically it could be used as the biggest middle finger to marketing and PR department to STFU and get a proper engineer to talk to me. Especially in the context of foundry where his research was on Electrochemistry.