People keep track of their ‘score’ in citations, published papers, grant money, awards.
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People and organizations are all playing some game that has different ways of gaining status and power
§Academia Constraints
The peer review and citation system incentivizes people to work on things that other people think is interesting
§Institutions and Games
Successful professors are not necessarily the best researchers
Academic research is often just the concept half of creating a heuretic
All institutions are coupled to at least one game
Motivation is not context-free
Human capital theory of stagnation
Research requires intrinsic motivation
Bottling Lightning