I know this is obvious to everyone that follows me but it’s not just Jason Arday. Academia is 80% fake nonsense. Towers of abstraction with no basis in reality and they believe they should govern the world because they’ve given themselves gold stickers for climbing them
Never in my life been in a meeting with this many people that was actually productive. There’s some rule at Amazon that a meeting should never be bigger than you can feed with two pizzas, seems about right