Misplaced Institutional Incentives (AD S2E1)

Hello one and all to this new season of Applied Dilettantery (neé Adventures in Dilettantery )[^1], two weeks early. As mentioned in the last few issues, I’ve been unhappy with the direction the newsletter was going in; it had drifted into a simple log of things I’d read/watched/listened to and, in a certain sense, didn’t have a strong value-add. I do of course respect your time, dear reader, so I…