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10 years ago I had vague ambitions of starting some sort of think tank type org to house my long-term research interests... this got downgraded to think mug. Now the whole idea of running an org to do X seems like a distraction from doing X.
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Life cycle model of intellectual institutions Think spoon Think mug Think bucket Think tank Think river Think reservoir Think wetland Think cesspool Think swamp
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So my new plan is to define my long-term programs in the form of "virus" programs that can move from host institution to host institution. Starting with my temporality research currently hosted at and previously hosted at Cornell U (aka my postdoc)
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ok that doesn't really count.. postdocs are Real Adults and not indentured or pre-credentialed. I feel they're akin to "VP without portfolio" in the Gervais framework