Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge.
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So while it's true that only a microscopically small fraction of great literature is produced by literature professors, a lot of the most important new math comes from math professors.
Incidentally, *this* is the reason you shouldn't major in English or business in college. It's not that literature and business aren't important so much as that the people teaching them in college are no good at them.
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Philosophy.
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So beautifully said. The urge to oversimplify often leads to wrong theories.
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Exactly the reason I dropped out of business school my first time around. Went back a few years later and got degrees in journalism and political science.
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The better your feedback loop, the better your work. Businesses have the market. Novels have the readers. Science has experiments. It’s when the feedback loop is a small group of bosses or peers that quality falls apart.
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Sales has the customers.
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Having been a teacher, the old adage is absolutely true: "Those who can't, teach". This is why I literally "learned to code" and am doing a master's in something useful to the world.
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True true true!
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Guys come on, it’s a fun topic but this isn’t good advice re English/literature. There are great writers who are great teachers and great writers who don’t teach. There’s even a book about this - MFA Vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fictionhttps://g.co/kgs/uLarZd
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