Is There a Need for More Incentives for Academics to Study Big Questions?

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There are many big questions, it's hard to study them. I've often suggested for graduate school, instead of taking a class, everyone should be sent to a not so high income village for two weeks. O the tenure system, i think, increasingly, is broken. A lot of academics do work pretty hard, but so much of your audience is a narrowly defined set of peers who write you reference ind tenure letters. The incentive for academics to integrate with practitioners and learn from them and actually try doing things.

Over the past year Mark Zuckerberg has held a series of interviews themed around technology and society. This conversation with Tyler and Patrick is the last in that series, and covers why they think the study of progress is so important, including how it could affect biomedical research, the founding of new universities and foundations, building things fast, housing and healthcare affordability, the next four years of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and more.

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