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Should we not spend time making others successful in the first part of our careers? And should we stop having ambitions of our own after that?

The tenure system encourages a terrible before-and-after mentality. The only way to do it right is to live our values all along.
This is neither to say that I don't get the laudable instinct behind that tweet, nor that I currently get it right.

But I do think academia's structure tempts people into an odd division between "what I have to do now" and "what I get to do eventually" that's deeply destructive.
If you do something long enough to get tenure, you'll probably get so used to doing it that you'll do it for the rest of your life.

☛ If there's something you really want to do, don't wait to do it until you get tenure.
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