Academia: Spend your life absorbing everything that's ever been said about a topic in order to hopefully add a tiny increment of original thought to it Tech: Disregard everything that's ever been said about a topic and confidently rediscover other fields' most basic ideas
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Speaking as someone who has spent about a decade in each world, I’m pretty confident (heh!) that the problem is not that tech under-indexes on originality but that academia under-indexes on importance.
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90% of academia’s originality claims are no more than squatting on easily rediscovered trivia and attempting to derive rents from teminological seigniorage based on versions of ideas that aren’t actually as well-adapted to field use as field-rediscoveries.
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