Heh. I simply quit my tenured job to work on open science; it was much easier than convincing my institution to support that work. "Enormous institutional reforms" may be an understatement.
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Because they had an institutional form around them (formal or informal) that made that feasible (resources, systems). What I mean by myth is idea its a general structural possibility. That anyone has the opp to sit in a garage and make that happen (provided they’re a genius)
)My point is that we have some types of institutions for which this happens routinely, and other types for which it's impossible. Mark Zuckerberg could not have started a University in 2004 & grown it to the Shanghai rankings. But he did that with a Company.
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Yeah, and broke the world as a result. There’s a place for some conservatism :-) But yes, what’s needed is sharp shock to shake things up. FWIW the rankings are more symptom than problem themselves. They’re filling a void, not providing information. The void is the opportunity.
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The more I think about it, I think we have a fundamental disagreement on optimal time frame for replacement. I increasingly feel the growth rates you’re arguing for destroy unrecognised value in culture/community/knowledge that aren’t tightly coupled to naive financial metrics
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