Nice summary. OTOH, underlying problem is that the shape of good scientific work (high risk, long-term orientation) doesn’t fit the shape of individual careers in any currently plausible institutional framework. No full near-term solution is possible. https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/998307085791064064 …
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The entire modern computer industry was invented at Xerox PARC because
@jseelybrown personally hired brilliant weirdos and mostly left them alone to do whatever eccentric things they came up with. Just pushing them to talk to each other instead of geeking out solo.5 replies 14 retweets 48 likesShow this thread -
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Yeah, my memory of the history was somewhat confused! In fact it seems from the wiki that Bob Taylor was still lab head when I was first there, which I don’t remember at all. Was probably irrelevant-seeming to me then.
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