Good Work If You Can Get It Quotes

“your teachers and professors were paid to read your work. They generally read all of it. In the real world, though, including academia, people aren’t getting paid to read your work, even when they’re getting paid to read some work. Your research is competing with Game of Thrones, drinking craft beer, playing tennis, taking a nap, prepping classes, chatting with co-workers, revising the reader’s own research, and reading all the other research out there.”
― Jason Brennan, Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia

“Most academics don’t learn how to sell what they do. If you haven’t, I’m not blaming you. You may simply be copying how others in the field write. Most academics are boring, flat writers. To be clear: They succeeded despite their bad writing, not because of it.”
― Jason Brennan, Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia

“Tortured writing is easy. Writing that seems effortless takes real skill.”
― Jason Brennan, Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia