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- Three Shifts: From Academia to Industry
Your PhD trained you to chase the weird result. Industry will ask you to move past it. Adam and Kamini break down three shifts for scientists moving from academia to industry, and they disagree along the way.
Free companion guidebook:
https://constructiveirreverence.substack.com/p/three-shifts
Chapters
00:00:00 Why Adam wrote the guidebook, and why students struggle in industry
00:08:48 Workshop versus course, inheriting goals, and identity versus role
00:20:12 Shift one: possible to probable
00:36:23 Shift two: from your science to their problem
00:46:00 Shift three: certainty versus defensibility, peer review, and respecting people’s time
01:09:31 Wrap up: one change for academia, industry, and yourself
01:14:06 Final takeaway
Produced by Amit Tandon, bespokepodcasts.ca
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit constructiveirreverence.substack.com1 hr 15 min
About Constructive Irreverence Podcast
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A single episode, and a companion to the Three Shifts guidebook (https://constructiveirreverence.substack.com/p/three-shifts). Read that first, then give this a listen. Or don't.
Kamini Singha and Adam Pidlisecky talk through the three shifts that help a scientist hit the ground running in industry, fill in the gaps the guidebook leaves, and disagree about some of it.
You've ticked the boxes. Coursework, candidacy, the committee, the papers, the defence. You did what academia asked of you, and you did it well. Now you want to go to industry.
Here's the part nobody mentions: they're asking for different things. Not better things, and not harder things. Different. They want to know how you managed risk, not what you discovered. What decision your work lets someone make. What you still don't know and what it would take to find out.
The good news is that you already have everything you need. The tools you built getting through the last six years are the right tools. You just have to learn to wield them differently, and to describe them in a way that lands with someone who doesn't work in your field.
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