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The academia can handle this, because it focuses on long-term collaborations that may span decades. Your closest coworkers and the topics you work on don't chan
by jltsiren 5y ago
The academia can handle this, because it focuses on long-term collaborations that may span decades. Your closest coworkers and the topics you work on don't change just because you got a new job and moved to another place. You continue working with the same people on the same topics, and there is an elaborate system of conferences, workshops, guest lectures, research visits, and sabbaticals that keeps the collaborations running.
I'm not sure how much of that is applicable to normal jobs where your employer owns your work.
- loopz 5y agoIn normal jobs, innovation and creativity are optimized away, and may even be seen as threats to status quo. There's little incentives as well, as you can get blamed and fired at any time. It usually doesn't go that far, but contracts often say company even owns your work in free time, so everything is set up against the employee to end up the way it does.