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Coping with overabundance as a scientist
We are in an era of overabundance. Many of the problems we face — spam, information overload, obesity, pollution — are actually the result of overabundance.
Scientists need new strategies:
- Create fast, discard faster.
- Aim for quality. When people have too much content, they want quality.
- Focus and live in niches.
- Produce shorter papers. People want to learn a specific facts. Make it easy for them to find them.
- Use formats that are easy to index. Paper is terrible. Slides, voice and…