Academics have to defend their ideas in front of other experts before publishing them. By the time an idea reaches a general audience, it's been tested by peer review, presentations, and debate. That process builds a community of scholars who become advocates for the work.
He talks about academics. Well, his great quote, which I quote all the time, which is there's a big difference between having an idea and having to defend it in public. And academics have to put their ideas through the fire of public defense, right? Like they're going to— they're before it's published, they're putting it out in front of other academics. They're doing this as students. They're doing this as seasoned theorists and researchers. And so by the time that we the public see a trade book written on these ideas, they have already been fire-tested by like the toughest audiences and picked apart and, and, and located in the conversation. And every single part, like, people know ahead of time like where, what's strong, what's not. And by the way, All the people who saw those papers and those like ideas in progress are already a built-in community and advocacy for that, for that person.
