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 t

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.