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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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.
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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And I know Michael Nielsen is head of research at YC
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I would venture that the feedback loops of logic and experiment would matter more than the feedback loop of peers (in the hard sciences), but probably splitting hairs now.
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Scientific revolutions often come from academia no ? Most Nobel prize breakthroughs are from professors
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Figure out how to apply your work against large complex systems (markets, nature) and you will be both recognized and rewarded.
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In maths, the feedback loop is actually nature and reality, even peers in most cases do not understand.
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