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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Dangers of Hyper Specialization

i keep lamenting that so much of academia is because of the incentives of the publisher pair is the journal game forced into hyper specialization and that is a great loss of intellectual capital to the world. If you are thinking too broadly you get better at connecting dots but you might get details wrong in any particular field, he says. i'm guessing that this is the tension that a you mentioned you deal with within the organization but also as a thinker yourself  you know how do you manage this? I have articulated the existential crisis i have better than i would have been able to articulate it according to Parag Khanna's new youtube show everything is everything episode five released today.

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