Zeynep Tufekci
Professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University
Recorded
said elsewhere, not written here
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.
Tyler Cowen, Conversations with Tyler podcast, published transcript source ↗