1/ Quick thought about teaching activities in the free agent world by analogy to academia. In academia most faculty enjoy teaching graduate courses and PhD seminars, but only a few enjoy teaching major undergrad “service” courses (like say Stats 101 or English 101).
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2/ Why? Because grad+ courses massively benefit the teacher’s research. I designed and taught one such as a postdoc at Cornell back in 2006, and learned far more than I ever did as a student. Undergrad service courses otoh, mainly teach logistics/presentation/packaging skills
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An aside: grad students are nice because they're a source of free (to you) labor and ideas to, uh, develop together. One of the main determinants of your power in an org = the # of people you control. The more grad students under your control, the better; hence, grad+ courses =
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