even beyond research, there are a number of such more “exceptional” types of roles in the venture world. For about a year now, I’ve been tracking such roles that currently exist or once existed, and have come across a pretty broad set of titles: design partner, data scientist in residence, chief scientist, writer in residence, philosopher in reside... See more

On the trading floor, he’d found himself asking himself a question: What is the likelihood that this job I stumbled into by accident yields my highest value? He thought it implausible on the face of it. He’d even made a list of things he might do other than trade for Jane Street: work in politics, write journalism, sell other people on becoming eff

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As the individual experiences an ever-growing sense of acceleration provided by technological developments (new media and the “speeding up” of the infosphere) alongside a general decrease in security of past provisions and expectations (read: precarity, freelance positions, housing shortages, and increasing wealth disparities coexisting with rhetor... See more

becoming a [computing-internet-creative] [researcher-artist-technologist-???]

(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)