thus it begins... this is so easy. why don't i do this regularly?

alt: pictures of mixing bowl empty then with pumpkin stuffs in it

I once had the ideal that academic scholarship was like the figure, ie an original contribution to the knowledge of the world.

I don't think this is possible. You will always have an incomplete view of the knowledge base, making the bump context or discourse dependent.

So what does it mean and how do I transition to a pragmatic view? How do I review papers? How do I evaluate myself? How do I argue my contributions? My students contributions? How do we measure anything systematically? And I guess what is our realistic aim?

We implicitly assume that our knowledge base consisting of only reviewers is sound and complete? Wouldn't be a bad deal if so much didn't count it.

I think a realistic aim might be process? To create a systematically applied process within the discourse community so that it's knowledge base is at least self consistent. That's likely what happens any way.

This model might also suggest why communities experiences extreme growth lose consistency and predictability. Ie security has had a significant shift in reviewer pool.

Thanks for visiting this broadcast of meandering Nathan thoughts.

I asked the NRNG (Nathan Random Number Generator) to give me a poem for the #random channel… and out popped this...

> silly pervades. the just evades. onward we march. to become the monarch.

> my poem about the #academafia :smile: