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How to rebuild when your field becomes culturally irrelevant

I trained for fifteen years to become an expert in something that society has decided does not matter anymore and I do not know how to start over.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The value of knowledge depends partly on social recognition that can disappear without warning.

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