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> why the hell those two? I would guess to be free to pursue interesting ideas, and then make money off them.

• zabzonk 2y ago
  why tenured? (I can't be sacked?). why startup? (well, why at all, but also cannot easily be sacked, should the startup actually work). just my opinion, and not to badmouth, but this sounds like a somewhat insecure person.
  • dasil003 2y ago
    That's a weird take, he's talking about youthful ambitions. Tenured professor is a pretty standard bar for academic success, and startup us shorthand for building a scalable tech company from scratch. These seem like perfectly cromulent ambitions to me, not sure how insecurity enters into it or why I would care if it did.
  • motoxpro 2y ago
    It's just a success metric + an activity Tenured (metric) + professor (activity). He defined his, same as you did: Good (metric) + programmer (activity) The activity is just what people find interesting and the metric is what you strive toward. Imposing the idea that the only reason you pursue originality is so that they can't get sacked is a very wild take.