On Ronin and the Importance of Physical Colleagues

Originally posted at Lost in Transcription on December 12, 2011. So, welcome back to my intermittent live-blog of my adventures in forming a non-profit research institute in order to function as an independent scholar. I’ve written a couple of times before: about my own goals for the enterprise, and about the things that an independent scholar will …

Universities as Resource Aggregators

This was originally posted at Lost in Transcription on October 26, 2011. So, I had not realized until I got a twitter-prompt from Kiona Strickland that so much time had passed since I put out my call for opinions on what one would need to successfully do academic research outside the confines of traditional academia. The call was put …

My Goals for Independent Scholarship

This was posted at Lost in Transcription originally on August 22, 2011. So, I’ve already received a number of very thoughtful responses to my previous post, in which I asked for people’s thoughts about the needs of an independent scholar — particularly those needs that could potentially be filled by an outfit like the Ronin Institute. …