There is a huge lurking leviathan of gatekeeping in the form of the systemic and near-universal inability for most fields to reward teachers and encourage learning - when we allow cognitive barriers to grow high we severely limit the breadth of those who can contribute It’s a completely systemic problem - no ill intention or tribalism - just what happens when a field grows in population much faster than in funding - such that internal competition becomes preferential to cooperation

I hope @niais doesn't mind me using this to branch of a discussion - but how many academics regularly suffer ability disabling overload?

https://twitter.com/niais/status/1191742656897925120

Whether it is in the form of a panic attack, burn out, executive dysfunction or any other disproportionate response to over stimulation* this feels like a common phenomena

*let me know if that doesn't feel like a fair characterisation of your experience

I want to tell a story with this little device - of a common dysfunction - the renter's paradox This device, tucked away behind an old door, holds it open - on its own just a simple ease of life feature

But there's something of another time here

I live in an old house - rented now but many times owned and passed between owners

#breadcrumbs Woke Disney via @YouTube I've been thinking about this a lot recently - written half a dozen aborted essays about it, on paper, in conversation, internally

Scared to misstep and lose my grasp on the kernel of the question

But let's mind-dump it and see what sticks: