the problem with research
Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:
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Academia needs more freedom. (but not in the sense you are ...
Research, viewed as an “investment” with no guaranteed return, is treated as a loss — a loss that must be preemptively covered by the thinking tax. Want to think? You have to pay.
Academia needs more freedom. (but not in the sense you are ...
The reference becomes the proof, the comfort blanket, the way to sell in an idea to stakeholders who fear risk . But when the proof is always something already familiar, the outcome can only ever be a variation of what we’ve seen before.
Zoë Yasemin • The Reference Trap
No research proposal can pass without agreement on methodology. No thesis can pass without recognisable methodology. There is a mandatory demand: how did you go about getting to know what you have put together as your thesis?
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni • Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history
When Europeans shifted from a God-centred society to secular thinking during the Enlightenment period, they inaugurated the science of “knowability”. God was no longer the only one who could understand the world. The rational human could too.
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni • Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history
the “origins” of research
Modern Ideologies – Dr. Roy Casagranda | Museum of the Future: Lessons from the Past
youtube.comgeneral approach to issues: take a position and do research to defend position instead of going in open-minded and see what research points to — minute 45:44