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Well, yeah, but bold is nearly impossible to tell from crazy, and people really don't like being told that "actually, the most efficient management technique in
by jjoonathan 7y ago
Well, yeah, but bold is nearly impossible to tell from crazy, and people really don't like being told that "actually, the most efficient management technique in this case is to throw money randomly at a lightly-filtered set of projects."
People want to believe that blue-sky research can be predicted, managed, and optimized, no matter the staggering mountains of evidence to the contrary.
- hef19898 7y agoThat seems to problem, doesn't it? How to identify the truly crazy ideas from the simply bold ones. Especially as nobody "gets fired to buy IBM", which kind of applies to everything from buying and hiring, over startup funding all the way to research.