> "I've decided to quit impostor syndrome and accept that I am kind of a biochemistry badass…" I think the work you do is pretty awesome (at least from reading

> "I've decided to quit impostor syndrome and accept that I am kind of a biochemistry badass…" I think the work you do is pretty awesome (at least from reading your posts here and on your blog) and can understand that you are stretched, but I can see that you also want to move the field forward (and not in the "lets shit some papers out and maximize for 'impact factor'" way). >"As to why I'm not really that excited about helping the Open Insulin Project any further: I've become kind of wary about prevailing attitudes in the tech-to-bio transition field that basically takes an exploitative attitude following the Postdocapalypse... There's this investor class expectation that they can hire frustrated grad students and postdocs for cheap. I think this is true, but they better watch out, in 99% of cases they are going to get what they are paying for." I can see where you are coming from about the whole Postdocapalypse economics… I see it heating up as well with mindfulness being the current carrying agent in moving the neural tech forward (some neuro phd i was talking to on twitter said this to when I was mocking the "run matlab on cluster for months mentality" and saying it could be done way faster (hours) and cheaper: "Sounds a little bit more complicated than just reporting what you did in a paper.", so yeah, the investors who fund people like that are going to get exactly what they are paying for), but I'm going to help people milk it for what its worth just to help foster something that can compete with the abomination that academia has metastasized into that masquerades such games as science. > "…I've never been terribly excited about bringing the marginal cost of scientific labor closer to zero, and the OIP is basically that." Yeah I can understand that, but I also think the way that resources are allocated as a society are in for a major shake up (esp with the whole crowdfunding bonanza across so many industries, and have people who worked for the UN and a gov agency in Turkey contact me about the software I wrote to track it on social media), which I think is why people aren't terribly excited on top of the personal stress all the uncertainty brings which I'm familiar with being a drop out who's in the neck of it up here in the boston area (and happen to be the only one it seems to have open-sourced a spacial beamformer in c++ for real time neural feedback for eeg that can be adapted for dual eeg/fmri). I do think though, because you aren't necessarily confining yourself to what things have to be (as defined by the status quo), you'll probably end up doing way more than you think you are capable of now.