Re: Degrees vs. smarts

From: David Lubkin (lubkin@unreasonable.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 19:08:48 MDT


>I believe that Elizabeth has hit the nail on the head.
>
>Academics are trained to survive and prosper in one environment,
>corporate types in another. The corporate types are always
>questioning whether that information has value while the academic
>types are questioning whether the information has relevance.
>[maybe, I could easily see this statement reversed...]

Ditto. I am interested in science but at core, I'm an engineer, an
entrepreneur, and a writer. I'm glad someone else is writing papers, doing
experiments, or theorizing, but it is not relevant to meeting a milestone,
making a go of my company, or getting a manuscript to my publisher.

Previous threads have focussed on the split between art (mostly Natasha and
Nadia) and sci-tech (mostly everyone else). It seems that there's just as
profound a split in perspective between the sci- and the -tech.

-- David Lubkin.

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