Getting my fill of faith in the future: serving today on a mind-bogglingly kind panel, selecting promising scientists for the @SchmidtFellows.
One conclusion: venture capitalists have much to learn from scientists on how to bet on the future.
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... it's important to deeply know how to benchmark the reference from each referrer. (Knowing whether this referrer saying "one of the best ever" is like another referrer saying "their paper was important.")
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... and looking at other data when a person's life story means the references are less meaningful.
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... looking at the whole portfolio of bets on the future all at once vs. making each choice as a one-off.
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... having a standard way of showing work and plans, to make the difference in presentation less important than the difference in substance. (While also allowing for the power of a strong communicator!)
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... and similarities abound, like loving the uneven potential outliers, fusing life story and work, acknowledging and discussing unconscious bias, and deliberating about how to deliberate :)
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Grateful for the chance to learn from new peers and from students with that spark -- and to
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Noticing an enormous power I missed before... the tiny number of people in government who shape the future of what humankind knows, by deciding what research areas to fund. Drives so much of how scientists choose what problems to solve.
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Would love to read a history of this. Who in government decides what areas of science to fund, and why -- the logic, fashion, randomness, and politics of it all.
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It’s amazing to me that this doesn’t get more attention, especially since so many discerning participants seem to consider the status quo severely and needlessly deficient. We’d love to talk to anyone investigating this.
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And not just what areas to fund but what strategies to employ therein… Do you fund really smart teams and let them run, fun particular approaches, or just focus attention on lowering the cost of doing science and let others do the choosing…
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Replying to @jasonwbade @patrickc and
Look at you with your legitimate second-order questions :)
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I’m just too lazy to come up with first order questions!
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