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Reimagining the PhD
Nadia Eghbal: It’s not just the discovery of knowledge (i.e., learning new things) that’s easier now, but also the validation (where your peers, rather than an accredited institution, decide whether your insights are worth discussing) and distribution of knowledge. Sharing new ideas previously required working with centralized gatekeepers, like a u... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Research requires commitment to evidence, broadly defined. In the sciences, this might involve running experiments and quantitatively analyzing the results; in the humanities, this might involve translating or transcribing primary sources and qualitatively interrogating them. (But this is oversimplifying things: the “sciences” and the “humanities”
... See moreCeline Nguyen • research as leisure activity - by Celine Nguyen research as leisure activity
Although I was in a formal program, I didn’t want my curiosity to stop flowing. Inspired by the experimental mindset taught in scientific training, I asked myself: What experiment could I run on my own life that would bring me an intrinsic sense of fulfillment, whatever the outcome?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
I greatly appreciated the chance to stress test my productivity system this last six months or so. I learned a few important lessons about myself:
- I’m imaginative in the less intensive part of the year and I imagine myself doing more than I’m capable of in the intense part of the year.
- When push came to shove, having a very basic, skeleton plan for e
Stress Testing Your Productivity System: Three Tips for When Your Productivity System Fails You – The Sweet Setup
My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?!
It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social commons where ppl can learn, do research, and create groundbreaking wor... See more
It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social commons where ppl can learn, do research, and create groundbreaking wor... See more