The internet created a lot of new mediums. Blogs, vlogs, tl;dr culture, explainer videos, Twitter, podcasts, clickbait, ELI5, etc. It seems like we never saw new mediums emerge for academia. Probably because the same institutions are consuming and generating the content?
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I'll be the 1st to admit that idk what more casual mediums might look like for academia. I may be totally off base. I'm just curious about how much is filtered out or obscured by a fixed medium that assumes a certain format, length, breakdown, rigor, presentation, etc
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A few: Bret Victor, 3Blue1Brown, Vi Hart, Satoshi, Eric Drexler, Ted Nelson (in a sense), Alan Kay (ditto). I decided to (mostly) stop writing papers in 2008, and to concentrate on more experimental media.
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yup! I think brand is the ultimate validation metric (in that sense I think you're both agreeing). For an academic career, perhaps journals are the primary path to brand. But if the goal is just "research that people pay attention to", you suddenly have more options
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I just mean that if you sit in an academic hiring meeting, or are helping decide on grants, 9 out of 10 people will usually be concerned with things like “how good a journal is that”? Etc. It’s a bad system, but it’s how much hiring works.
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An amusing fact is that organizations which go beyond that can do very well for themselves. I can think of a few hires where (a) they did badly by standard metrics; but (b) someone crucial in the org truly engaged with the actual work, ignoring the metrics.
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Yeah this reminds me of a hiring/recruiting tip. Basically, it is good to ignore certain signals like top tier university and impressive job history not because they aren't good signals, but because everyone is aware of them. Better if you can identify diamonds in the rough
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Have you seen World After Capital by
@albertwenger? It is a living doc thats freely accessible. Would love to see similar format for academia where evolution of research on a topic can be documented. There is a biz model challenge but people would likely pay for a new formatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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