People forage for the resolution of uncertainty. Artificial certainty is a lot more salable than information.https://twitter.com/mountainherder/status/1108763667598700545 …
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I'm going to admit, there are times when I wish I was the other way. For one, I end up being a terrible salesman of my own work beyond a very niche audience because I'm not willing to speak in absolutes.
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I'm also profoundly insecure about not knowing the field well enough, always being afraid I'm missing something important.
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I'm basically unwilling to trust anyone who doesn't feel that way at this point, regardless of their reputation. There's just impossibly too much to know for one person. Modern scholarship is necessary social for work/knowledge sharing.
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On a related, but tangential note, have you read this Borderlands piece by
@profptj? It spoke to me on an elemental level about the idea of inquiry versus expectations of the profession: http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol16no22017/jackson_panoramic.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
I haven't. Added to my PDF queue, thanks!
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