A couple of years ago, Prof. Michael Stonebreaker gave a talk in ICDE (IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering) 2018 in Paris on the problems of the pursuit o

A couple of years ago, Prof. Michael Stonebreaker gave a talk in ICDE (IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering) 2018 in Paris on the problems of the pursuit of the "LPU", least publishable unit of work; and his impression that few people pursue deeper and more significant work because of this and other factors. If you can find a summary or a recording of that somehow, it's worthwhile to listen IMHO.