In the last week I've had conversations with 7 people who want to start their own research institute. Pretty sure they should all get together and start the "Institute Institute".
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What do they seem to want? What's attractive to them about being part of an institution?
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Colleagues and intellectual community. The overwhelming majority of examples of major breakthroughs come out of a scene, not an individual (despite what history often says about people like Newton, Einstein, etc).
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(I don't mean to downplay the contribution of Einstein et al - it was enormous! But if Einstein had grown up in Australia, my home country, we'd never have heard of him. He was, and needed to be, part of the v. strong European physics scene, albeit at the periphery early on).
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I believe it! Desire for a scene is the strongest impulse pushing me away from independence.
Alan Kay's observation on this is you can't just have a single team: you need an entire league. The Los Angeles Lakers alone can't play ball. They need someone to play against in order to become their best.
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Our little corner of Twitter is a good scene, especially during covid-times 😊
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Why is our little corner of Twitter so good when it seems so disruptive & dysregulating at a broader level? twitter.com/nickcammarata/…
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Replying to @MilanGriffes @nickcammarata and @xuenay
What we really need is a small pool of capital that funds our corner of Twitter to just hang out together on Twitter all the time 