It’s also reminding me how much I enjoy doing the real thing. It’s like a year long vacation back to my own past.
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1. Intelligence briefs 2. Gartneresque research 3. Investigative journalism 3. Market research 4. Broad societal trend research 5. Data-heavy trend research, pure math 6. Tech futures, humanities 7. S/W tech, social science 8. Generic STEM 9. Big science 10. Paradigm shifts
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This scale isn’t commentary on the intelligence, creativity, or imagination of the people who do such work. Higher on the scale is simply riskier, more time-consuming, and requires more backend work, even holding the human factor constant
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One thing I probably could do is raise funding for a small research institution/lab working on problems in the 6-8 range. Maybe 4-5 staff. The thing is I don’t want to run a research org, which is an entirely different interest/ambition than doing research. It takes a COO type.
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Strange-looping in a secondary meta thread I did later.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195937380210921472 …
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I remembered this thought differently and went looking for it today. What I wanted to find: the more dead-weight you're willing to do, the more pure and egoless your distillation/new knowledge will be. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195795503495053312 … let me see if I can ramble my way to something
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it has to do with people's resistance to being critics and consumers of their own work and being very hard on themselveshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1125127789319938049 …
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