Paul Graham on Twitter: "One of the most interesting essays I've read this year. Not surprisingly, since cperciva is one of the smartest people I know. (Once again, HN plays its traditional role of supplying the inspiringly mistaken opinion.) https://t.co/b0VWqmlr7V"

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1. Akshay Ranjith PT‏ @akshay_ranjith 21 Sep 2020
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  What happens if the most ambitious academicians takes the path of entrepreneurship for the freedom it provides.
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1. ChrisA‏ @19CLiberalChris 21 Sep 2020
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  His musings on academia research are spot on. It is criminal that thousands of our smartest people are diverted into the academic rent seeking trap instead of working on real world problems in the real world. It is the medieval monastery all over again.
  
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1. Adjective-Animal‏ @juln 21 Sep 2020
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  Kind of a weird perspective from the founder of HN, but okay
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1. Danial Ranjha ‏ @danialranjha 21 Sep 2020
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  _Bootstrapped_ entrepreneurship is one of the only ways to avoid being trapped. I wonder if @cperciva would agree with this slight amendment to his closing line in the essay.
  
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1. Mehmet Ali Anil‏ @maanil_ee 21 Sep 2020
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  This is my catch of the day! Great response, and great example of how general perception can be so spotty. I must add that it also has a very acute observation of the status of academia in general. #mustread
  
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1. Nassim Dehouche‏ @ndehouche 21 Sep 2020
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  Funnily, if he had done research about tarsnap once it was created, he'd have likely gotten his postdoc https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Tarsnap&btnG= …
  
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