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• adamsea 7y ago
  Good luck being a human
  • rayiner 7y ago
    Being able to devote yourself to one thing like that is not only uniquely human, it’s a unique characteristic of relatively modern humans.
• hliyan 7y ago
  Doesn't this entirely miss the central point of this article? This is what I took away: - Then it hit me: Life is too precious and too fleeting to waste my time on bullshit like tenure. I didn’t become a professor to get tenure. I became a professor to make the world better through science. From this day forward, I will spend my time on problems and solutions that will matter. I will make a difference. I stopped working on problems for the sole purpose of notching up a publication. I shifted gears to cybersecurity. I found a project on cancer in the med school. I joined a project in chemical engineering using super-computing to fight global warming. Suddenly, my papers started getting accepted. My grant proposals started getting funded. - I have always believed in the idea that success is an outcome. It cannot be maximized/optimized directly any more than you can increase your car's speed by grabbing and turning the speedometer needle. We need to focus on what matters. Success will follow.
  • graycat 7y ago
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    • pc86 7y ago
      The post wasn't a question about how to get tenure, it was sharing a specific article with a specific argument. Matt and I spent thousands of hours on the same IRC channels as early as the late 90's and he's always been a gifted writer and his posts are well worth the time to read and critically think about. Given the context, a blog-post-length comment about how to get tenure is not super relevant and a little odd. But then again, so is editing both of your posts to remove the content (and presumably eliminate any further discussion).
  • pif 7y ago
    > Success will follow. Wrong! Success may follow.