Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
intellectually honest and economically rational but that alone is not enough there are many companies that do the right thing when their backs are against the wall the anointed few are there because they have chosen to outthink their competition and allocate Capital over many years with discipline to reinforce their firm's competitive
The key point to understand about Bloomberg is that it’s both a software product and a social network. The software product determined who would join the network, but the network is what keeps users there. It’s like a multiplayer video game, or Harvard: Sure, the quests and campus are useful, but people keep showing up because of the friends
... See more“communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”
• Research culminates in some output . Research isn’t just about collecting references and evidence and the ideas of other people. It isn’t even about synthesizing them in an interesting way. Research is about advancing new arguments and ideas in some form—typically a conference presentation, paper, book, etc.
Embrace naivety / Talk at CSM split this up
This is also when the work is the most fun. How do you get young people to embrace naivety? Or how do I learn how to write better copy for websites? When the question becomes a box?
Research Incumbency Rule: “Once an article is published in some approved venue, it is taken as truth. Criticisms which would absolutely derail a submission in pre-publication review can be brushed aside if they are presented after publication. This is what you call ‘the burden of proof on critics.'”
"The barnacle" the author explained "is confronted with an existential decision about where it's going to live. Once it decides.. . it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock.." End of quote. For a good many of us, it comes to that.
We've all seen men and women, even ones in fortunate circumstances with responsible positions who
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