Traditional R&D (ie PhDs) is ass-backwards. You should race to your first original idea as fast as poss, *then* invest in discipline mastery
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Spending years "paying your dues" and "learning the foundations" is bs propagated by R&D rent-seekers. Get to the frontier anyhow.
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The probability of novel ideas increases far more rapidly with knowledge than people assume. What n00bs lack is not knowledge but confidence
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You probably need only 3-6 mo from a discipline's traditional starting line to have an original idea, not 2-3 years as institutions pretend
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interesting -- anecdotal or has someone done the work on this?
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Maybe PhD work woulda helped you with a statistical significant test of the hypothesis?
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You mean that produces all those mostly irreproducible social psych papers? I'm devastated that my PhD didn't teach me those skills
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Don't you just attract disproportionately original thinkers? Your writing is like 99% originality and 1% rigour/empirics.



