1/Good piece by on academia‘s slowness. The tenure system is especially perverse. As a friend of mine says: « urchins have 2 phases in their lives: one when they’re nomadic, and one when they settle down somewhere on the floor of the ocean
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I have no desire to work in academia despite doing research, but I've come to see this as comparing startups to Fortune 500 co's. Two systems that attract diff types of talent
Academia is mature, but unsure it's broken. Doesn't mean we can't build diff system alongside though :)
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By doing all my “work” outside academia, I’ve really come to respect it. It’s broken in many ways, but there are big important problems it solves more effectively than anything I’ve seen in a competing system.
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Two of them are: (1) Encouraging people to understand the past and build on other’s work, and (2) Providing a stable platform for a long term career.
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Then I will treat your take as well-founded, though I’m way more cynical about it myself. People who’ve never been through that rhapsodizing about academia make me 🙄
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