surprised there's no mention of the "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time" paper from AER a few years ago:
Azoulay, Pierre, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Joshua S. Graff Zivin. 2019. "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?" American Economic Review 109 (8): 2889–2920.
This is just a grump having his say. Don't take me seriously.
Jobs and Wozniak (20 and 25, although Jobs' greatest innovations came when he was in his 40s), Gates (20), Edison (29 when he founded Menlo Park), Altman (19), Einstein (26), Mozart and Beethoven (although it is debatable at what ages they stopped being prodigies and became innovators), Pascal (18). A historian of Rock might be able to name an artist aged over 25 when they flipped popular music on its head. Add to that a million other Under-Thirties who have changed the world in smaller but important ways, but whose names do not register with the public.
Most of the big innovators who made the world what it is today only really got going in their late Thirties or older. Skull bone is thick and strong and it takes time for new ideas to penetrate.
surprised there's no mention of the "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time" paper from AER a few years ago:
Azoulay, Pierre, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Joshua S. Graff Zivin. 2019. "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?" American Economic Review 109 (8): 2889–2920.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161574
This is just a grump having his say. Don't take me seriously.
Jobs and Wozniak (20 and 25, although Jobs' greatest innovations came when he was in his 40s), Gates (20), Edison (29 when he founded Menlo Park), Altman (19), Einstein (26), Mozart and Beethoven (although it is debatable at what ages they stopped being prodigies and became innovators), Pascal (18). A historian of Rock might be able to name an artist aged over 25 when they flipped popular music on its head. Add to that a million other Under-Thirties who have changed the world in smaller but important ways, but whose names do not register with the public.
Most of the big innovators who made the world what it is today only really got going in their late Thirties or older. Skull bone is thick and strong and it takes time for new ideas to penetrate.