Not everyone who is a good independent researcher is a good man-manager. For some people, researching independently -- or perhaps collaborating with a few othe

Not everyone who is a good independent researcher is a good man-manager. For some people, researching independently -- or perhaps collaborating with a few other independents -- might be a better route than being forced to spin up a research group (and more-or-less-inevitably finding themselves with limited time to do the hands-on stuff themselves).