taryneast comments on Costs and Benefits of Scholarship - Less Wrong

40 Post author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 02:19AM

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Comment author: taryneast 22 March 2011 01:44:22PM 5 points [-]

Opportunity cost

Scholarship takes time - time that could also be spent on actually doing something instead of just reading about it.

Note that I love scholarship... but I also find it an excellent form of procrastination. You can use the excuse of "I should read up a bit more about this" to put off the hard work of actually shipping something worthwhile. Thus scholarship can become a form of analysis paralysis.

Comment author: lukeprog 22 March 2011 02:52:39PM 0 points [-]

Good. Added.