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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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.
I think the critical difference is not the feedback loop but the kind of work you're judged on. Literature professors write papers about literature, whereas math professors write papers consisting of math.
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Historically, people who've done great work in math and the hard sciences have often had feedback loops consisting of extremely small groups of peers, because no one else could understand what they were working on.
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I agree, but also see -> polymath project
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Which means that the best way to learn to do something is to do it, or to apprentice under someone actually doing it (not talking about it or writing about it).
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JFDI
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You two on a podcast would be god level
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that would be an "El Clasico" of Twitter.
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it would have been nice to write some papers *about* math every once in a while. I had a professor once who said his ideal exam question would have been, "continuity. dicsuss." but the department wouldn't let him set it.
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The key distinction here is between practice and criticism. Mathematics professors are practitioners of the art of mathematics, not (primarily) critics of that art. Literature professors are far more often (primarily) critics of the art of literature than practitioners thereof.
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