I have the same academic disease that any academic will understand, that I get focused on the interesting because that’s appealing to me. Most of the time, most answers are boring. “It’s a respiratory disease. Wear a mask.” That’s a boring example. Trying to be too clever, too smart, almost too contrarian sometimes — I would say that is something that I fight in myself because, like a lot of academics and a lot of intellectual people, I like the answers that surprise me.
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Zeynep Tufekci
Professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University
Turkey / United States
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Turkish-American sociologist writing on the social effects of technology and on public health, a New York Times opinion columnist and author of Twitter and Tear Gas.
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