This was a really interesting read, I love when blog posts give a little slice of life behind an often unspoken phenomenon. I feel like so many people a susceptible to “the feed” and what they perceive others are doing or value. If someone has a good marketing strategy, and a VP is doing their job by researching on LinkedIn, seems like a recipe for disaster. You could only hope most VPs aren’t doing this but…
>The psychological difficulty of the status swings afforded by randomness-driven fields such as academia is a core theme in Taleb's The Black Swan.