That's why I left grad school. You can choose your environment.
Also, academia encourages you to think in terms of the theories/dogma/paradigms of the day, in order to relate to the literature, to get published, and to get funded - as you say (it's a market, but not based on actual need). This is very effective for incremental improvement, but makes it harder to be truly original (which is hard enough already).
Yet, within any environment, there are constraints but also some freedom. There's a choice of approach to that free time: adapting yourself to your environment, or using it for play.
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That's why I left grad school. You can choose your environment.
Also, academia encourages you to think in terms of the theories/dogma/paradigms of the day, in order to relate to the literature, to get published, and to get funded - as you say (it's a market, but not based on actual need). This is very effective for incremental improvement, but makes it harder to be truly original (which is hard enough already).
Yet, within any environment, there are constraints but also some freedom. There's a choice of approach to that free time: adapting yourself to your environment, or using it for play.