> “People responsible for features will openly sabotage other people’s efforts. One of the most valuable things I learned was to give the appearance of being co

> “People responsible for features will openly sabotage other people’s efforts. One of the most valuable things I learned was to give the appearance of being courteous while withholding just enough information from colleagues to ensure they didn’t get ahead of me on the rankings.” Ah academics are well versed in this method! You would think science would be an endeavor to share knowledge, but in the current cut throat scientific world this has become a norm. Research must look reproducible but not actually be so without significant work to fill in the gaps. It doesn't hurt if it covers up actually unreproducible results either as long as it can get in a top journal. It also squashes genuinely novel research since it'd be too risky. Better to do small iterative tweaks.