Reading this is like looking into a world that is the reverse of what I know. My world is one of outsiders who are doing things they find meaningful or important as best they can, even under dire circumstances, but who can’t or won’t cross the threshold into being paid to do it. Meanwhile, apparently there’s this other world in which vast sums of money are in play, and there are lots of people eager to be paid to do valuable things, but there’s a shortage of actually valuable things to do.
I don’t think that the problem is a lack of valuable things to do. It’s rather that paradigm changing valuable things is a category of research for which there aren’t reliable signals beforehand.
If we look at a topic like forecasting there’s likely valuable conceptual work to be done but it’s unclear about how to do it.
Reading this is like looking into a world that is the reverse of what I know. My world is one of outsiders who are doing things they find meaningful or important as best they can, even under dire circumstances, but who can’t or won’t cross the threshold into being paid to do it. Meanwhile, apparently there’s this other world in which vast sums of money are in play, and there are lots of people eager to be paid to do valuable things, but there’s a shortage of actually valuable things to do.
I don’t think that the problem is a lack of valuable things to do. It’s rather that paradigm changing valuable things is a category of research for which there aren’t reliable signals beforehand.
If we look at a topic like forecasting there’s likely valuable conceptual work to be done but it’s unclear about how to do it.