What is taught is material that has been vigorously worked over already, and it isn't changing drastically in the short term. On a personal level, their positions are relatively stable too. By contrast, we web-workers might focus too much on the short term. Strategy is long term. There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
Great strategies are a cause.
I think we could benefit from this thinking, and make sure our designs are following solid strategies. Of course, operational effectiveness is still important, so it would be nice to see more academics apply all that knowledge to some short term challenges as well. Or read a verbatim transcript of a speech or monologue you found interesting. Or read a poem out loud that you have never read out loud before. I don't know Stewart, but this is a catalyst reminding me of all the people recently leaving my sphere of relationships.