Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

the more interesting their conversation, the more cultured they are, the more they will be trapped into thinking that they are effective at what they are doing in real business (something psychologists call the halo effect, the mistake of thinking that skills in, say, skiing translate unfailingly into skills in managing a pottery workshop or a bank department, or that a good chess player would be a good strategist in real life).

[I]n academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.

If you're busy at work odds are you will eventually be replaced by a robot.