This line, in an interesting article about whether budding academics should or should not blog, serves as a good reminder that many many people make entire careers out of sucking in and spouting back out whatever passes as "conventional wisdom":
It's a practice made effective by the fact that the conventional wisdom is probably more right than wrong most of the time. But it still sucks.
Shortly after Professor Tribble's second column, a campus career counselor advised several of my fellow job-hunters and me to limit our online presences, because, she said, The Chronicle had published articles saying it was a bad idea.
It's a practice made effective by the fact that the conventional wisdom is probably more right than wrong most of the time. But it still sucks.
