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Well, we could use a crude metric which is, how much of the day do you spend doing intellectual work? Right now, my advisor spends about ten or twelve hours. An
by munin 9y ago
Well, we could use a crude metric which is, how much of the day do you spend doing intellectual work? Right now, my advisor spends about ten or twelve hours. And it is pretty deep intellectual work, most of it is paper reading or discussion, via e-mail or in person meetings. Between watching when/how they reply to e-mail, make check-ins, their calendar, and talking to other collaborators and other students, they genuinely seem to fill 12 hours a day with work, six days a week, and have for the last fifteen years.
We can quickly get into some no-true-Scotsman territory here by asking "well if they're so smart how many Nobel/Field/Turing awards do they have" or something, but that's not the original question. The original question was, how much can you work at a high level a day? I have a measurement for both the ceiling and the floor and the ceiling seems high.
- tonyedgecombe 9y ago"how much of the day do you spend doing intellectual work?" But that only measures time, not productivity which is at the root of this problem. You think your advisor is doing ten or twelve hours of deep work, but how do you know they couldn't achieve the same in four or five? By the way, meetings and emails aren't deep work, even in an academic setting.