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The easy way to build an academic career is to find an existing trend, and to hook onto it, providing justification for what industry would have done anyway. Think of the NoSQL push and all the papers justifying fundamentally broken databases.
Quisling is exactly the right term.
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Emin Gün Sirer
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So many academics forget that our goal, as a profession, is *not* to publish papers. It's to change the world.
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David Z. Morris
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Sadly in my time in academia, while I encountered a lot of brilliant people, I mostly encountered quislings, and the brilliant people rarely cared about public engagement.
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David Z. Morris
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I was in social science, where I assume it's nearly as bad, with the saving grace of the fringe Red Guard LARPers. I've written about this, link in a few.
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David Z. Morris
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Here's maybe the most relevant thing I've written about letting the idiots drive me out of academia: mindslikeknives.com/open-access-an…
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Dossou Petros
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Teaching is really your vocation. God bless you
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