Back in grad school, when I realized how the “marketplace of ideas” actually works, it felt like I’d found the cheat codes to a research career. Today, this is the most important stuff I teach students, more than anything related to the substance of our research.
A quick preface: when I talk about research success I... See more
Arvind Narayanansubstack.comIt’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Expanding Job
“In most cases, people don’t measure the productivity of knowledge workers,”3 he explained. “And when we do, we do it in really silly ways, like how many papers do academics produce, regardless of quality. We are still in the quite early stages.” Davenport
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Reviewers have day jobs and other things they are doing as well. Review fatigue is becoming more real as more papers get constantly submitted at a higher ratio than new reviewers enter.
Nikhil Krishnan • Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs: the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing
In an effort to maximize output we risk becoming less original as a whole.