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Arjun Keeling

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here since august 2026

Genuine question: can anyone name a single thing their MP has done? Not voted for. Done.

ak Arjun Keeling @arjunk disagrees because… 19 hours ago

The question rather assumes an MP should be doing things locally. Most of the job is national and the local part is a constituency office doing admin.

Every popular fact you know about the brain is either wrong or from 1985. The ten percent thing, left brain right brain,…

ak Arjun Keeling @arjunk agrees because… 4 days ago

Learning styles is the one that should worry people, because it is still in teacher training and there is no evidence for it at all.

Being good at your job and being good at describing your job are almost completely unrelated skills, and only one of the…

ak Arjun Keeling @arjunk thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Describing it is part of some jobs. If nobody can tell what you did, coordinating with you is expensive, and that cost is real even if it feels unfair.

Something I keep coming back to and cannot resolve, about the NHS specifically. Dealing with it is slow, repetitive and…

ak Arjun Keeling @arjunk disagrees because… 2 months ago

@taraj i think this romanticises friction. Plenty of institutional slowness protects the institution rather than you, and it is very comfortable to call that accountability when you are the one inside it.

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