Difference between revisions of "18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020"

00:49:23 And my wife went into that job market committee meeting having her work presented their thinking that she could apply anywhere in the country and being told and said that she had almost nothing that you be lucky to escape with a PhD now in these three cases that is a theory of death that comes out of my brother's work at the University of Michigan a theory of productivity. And how are wealth is inflated away coming out of my wife's work at Harvard and another theory about what is this place? And how do these different geometries come together which would be the subject of geometric unity. All three of these ideas met in level of resistance that none of us had ever anticipated or encountered and I think that's been terrifying to me to think about the idea of going up against the institutions. However last year I made an interesting calculation

00:49:23 And my wife went into that job market committee meeting having her work presented their thinking that she could apply anywhere in the country and being told and said that she had almost nothing that you be lucky to escape with a PhD now in these three cases that is a theory of death that comes out of my brother's work at the University of Michigan a theory of productivity. And how are wealth is inflated away coming out of my wife's work at Harvard and another theory about what is this place? And how do these different geometries come together which would be the subject of geometric unity. All three of these ideas met in level of resistance that none of us had ever anticipated or encountered and I think that's been terrifying to me to think about the idea of going up against the institutions. However last year I made an interesting calculation

00:50:35 In a previous world, let's say the world of the early 1980s approximately half of the heads of research institutions would be Gen X and Gen Y that is xers and Millennials. However, almost no research University certainly almost no leading research University with I think the exception of the University of California Berkeley. When I did this calculation last year was under anything other than the presidency of a baby boomer. Now what it happened while we got rid of a mandatory retirement retirement requirement that probably affect the things fairly significantly and we begin to concentrate all sorts of power in one Generations ideas. Now Generations are magical things what they are or instead cohorts that are exposed to some set of circumstances that is peculiar to the time in which they are growing up.

00:50:35 In a previous world, let's say the world of the early 1980s approximately half of the heads of research institutions would be Gen X and Gen Y that is xers and Millennials. However, almost no research University certainly almost no leading research University with I think the exception of the University of California Berkeley. When I did this calculation last year was under anything other than the presidency of a baby boomer. Now what it happened while we got rid of a mandatory retirement retirement requirement that probably affect the things fairly significantly and we begin to concentrate all sorts of power in one Generations ideas. Now Generations are magical things what they are or instead cohorts that are exposed to some set of circumstances that is peculiar to the time in which they are growing up.