Posts Tagged ‘academics’

Academic Work —

I was in the middle of re-reading Joel Spolsky’s 2002 essay “Strategy Letter V” and thinking about how the microeconomic notion of “commoditizing your complements” applies to the current academic situation, when I wondered what he had written about in the last few months. One of his essays is about the nature of inventory management [...]

On Expertise —

A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine reminded me of my own days as a business consultant, but what really struck me was how much it sounded exactly like the kind of activities that academic faculty already engage in or are being asked to engage in: Are you an expert? If so, you might be able [...]