Would love to hear Venkatesh Rao / Cal Newport discuss this at some point: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/against-waldenponding https://contraptions.ve

Would love to hear Venkatesh Rao / Cal Newport discuss this at some point: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/against-waldenponding https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/against-waldenpondin... Another related post: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/semicolon-shaped-people https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/semicolon-shaped-peo... From the second link: > Tenured professors with status in a discipline can tune out the world and do "deep work" peers recognize as "important" before it is done (with accompanying ivory-tower/angels-on-pinhead risks). > But a free agent, with no institutional safety net, no underwriting of exploratory expeditions by disciplinary consensus, and no research grants, cannot afford this luxury.