Best of Twitter - Week of August 24, 2020
same for metascience, especially intersection of metascience/biology
Would especially appreciate really elaborate emails with crazy (or *extremely* reasonable) ways you would organize life science academia if you were starting from scratch today: alexey@guzey.com
Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey
In 2002 I was working in Amazon’s retail division. We were organized by department - books, CDs, electronics, etc - and a separate dept for products sold by 3rd parties. Then Bezos decided 3rd party should appear next to 1st party on the same product page. Here’s what happened:
By 2002 most people thought we should shut down 3rd party biz. It wasn’t working, consumed a lot of resources, good people were on it, big distraction. At the same time, core retail biz had decelerated to single digit growth after we raised prices to stop bleeding cash.
Baby elephant runs straight to his mum when he trips while chasing birds. The same tendency is found in humans too: Youngsters use their mothers or other attachment figures as a secure base for exploring the world, returning if they get upset or afraid. bit.ly/30Eig8z
"I would conservatively estimate that it [a bad hire] costs $100,000 and nine months of your life" forum.guzey.com/t/how-much-doe… (links to a great post by @josh_works)
What happens to a paper submitted to a top journal?
Among a set of manuscripts sent out for review by Cell in 2018:
-33% were published in Cell
-26% were published in another Cell-family journal
-7% are still under review at Cell
-The median time to publication was 391 days
Kanye West was recently named a billionaire by Forbes.
But did you know he was in $53M of debt just four years ago?
This is the story of how one negotiation changed his life forever and why betting on yourself is always the right move.
Time for a thread 👇👇👇
1) In 2007, Kanye West found himself on a flight with Nike CEO Mark Parker.
Sensing an opportunity, Kanye took out a sketchpad and started drawing shoe designs for Parker to review.
By the time they landed, Kanye had Parker's word the two would design a shoe together.
VC: What stops Google from copying this and crushing you?
Founder: Google started a VC fund too. How did that effect you?
VC: We’re fine. It’s not their core focus...
logan bartlett @loganbartlett
People with depersonalization disorder (DPD) "feel like feeling like zombies, robots or machines, just going through the motions of their own lives"
Philosophical zombies IRL! aeon.co/essays/what-ca…
How policies designed to improve academia are actually messing it up liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10…
"If a critical mass of scientists become untrustworthy, a tipping point is possible in which the scientific enterprise itself becomes inherently corrupt and public trust is lost"