That somebody powerful might actually use their research. From the NY Times, an example from a warlord in South Sudan:
Mr. Machar is plotting the offensive on the oil fields from a hide-out in Upper Nile State. It is a quiet outpost, save the incessant chirping of birds, and the former vice president keeps company with a small team of bodyguards. He has a satellite phone and a shiny touch-screen tablet in a battered brown case, and in his free time he is working through a paperback copy of “Why Nations Fail.”
I don’t lie awake at night worried someone important will read my research papers. I mean, who would? But I do live in terror that someone important will one day take my idle blog posts seriously.
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#jokibiz: “Things all academics fear?” http://t.co/KEzfrnSJ4K
” I do live in terror that someone important will one day take my idle blog posts seriously” @cblatts http://t.co/Xo7Cl6sJQ7
RT @Mattsika: It’s like present-day Nuer reading classical ethnographies of “themselves” RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.c…
RT @Mattsika: It’s like present-day Nuer reading classical ethnographies of “themselves” RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.c…
RT @Mattsika: It’s like present-day Nuer reading classical ethnographies of “themselves” RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.c…
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
Things all academics fear? http://t.co/D9qcqqbkzN Leaders could do a lot worse than read this book…!
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
Things all academics fear…that somebody powerful might use their research. http://t.co/zK1uvmPr1U via @cblatts
“I do live in terror that someone important will one day take my idle blog posts seriously” http://t.co/xk9wMoWEZM
“Things all academics fear?” http://t.co/5govHLdifr
RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.co/MRGraJtVh7
Things all academics fear? http://t.co/9C5QVrnJ3d
Things all academics fear?: That somebody powerful might actually use their research. From the NY Times, an ex… http://t.co/BT952fjnvY
RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.co/MRGraJtVh7
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
If this South Sudanese warlord fancies math, his next book will be Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy –> http://t.co/AQpw6ECSwE
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.co/MRGraJtVh7
This is scary –> @bill_easterly “Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/qNoMorOapq“
Well Hello. It is difficult to get a connection in the bush. I notice your comments come from big names in the Development World. One of my advantages in following these blogs when I get a connection is that I learn more and more about the people that I will have to contact to help me run the country when the war is over. Also, I do know I will be in power soon enough and have a country to run — not to mention a seat in the UN. It is unfair to think that I cannot learn, in advance of victory, from experts on how to run my country when I eventually come to power. In fact, I do think I should offer quite a few of you consultancy work. But while your thinking about that please allow me to speak to Commander Youngblood of my Second Juvenile Division. The pincer movement is getting stuck on his side. But I should be in touch in a couple of months at the most.
Chilling isn’t it. am. Today’s villain is -with an appropriate international settlement – tomorrow’s employer.
“I do live in terror that someone important will one day take my idle blog posts seriously.” http://t.co/0tGkuEvj3o
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
It’s like present-day Nuer reading classical ethnographies of “themselves” RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.co/H32CzzuncR
I can think of many worse things for a warlord to be reading than “Why Nations Fail”. http://t.co/2vmFjwlw2A
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
@bill_easterly @cblatts Do not be afraid. Social Irresponsibility – Feynman et al.
cc @WHarkavy
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What the article didn’t mention is that he’s got Tyranny of Experts in the Kindle app on his iPad.
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RT @cblatts: Things all academics fear? http://t.co/MRGraJtVh7
RT @bill_easterly Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/stdATCr7OM
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
RT @bill_easterly: Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
Development book authors: be afraid of who might read your book http://t.co/806FiKEwrI
@cblatts shouldn’t it be then “things all bloggers fear”?