two theories: 1) academia-in-practice has so poisoned the reputation of academia-in-theory that no one wants to do something as low status as what the universities do 2) you can read books part time while still actually DOING things. Why waste time in dry and useless repose?https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1486870216260808707 …
> You can do academia while doing other things too, arguably. indeed, that's what I said in bullet point #2 above
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I might have mistaken your intent with the phrasing. Einstein didnt reference a lot of works coming up with relativity. Academia should be a productive process, not just consuming books. Generating ideas, books etc rather than reading others works.
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