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In what way are you “forced”? I assume you aren’t tenured - but I do know several tenured academics who got off the treadmill and are doing just that.
by beagle3 6y ago
In what way are you “forced”? I assume you aren’t tenured - but I do know several tenured academics who got off the treadmill and are doing just that.
- low_tech_love 6y agoThere is a multitude of different papers coming out on each subject every day, most with small shallow contributions, and I need to keep up. When I do my own writing, I need to compare and state how I’m improving on them. Paper publishing is an extremely lucrative business, so technical papers are flowing like an endless river, regardless of quality or depth. Edit: I have a permanent position (outside the US system) but from my experience a tenure simply means more work. You need to keep up with the output if you want to do high-impact research, and it’s simply too much (in my opinion).
- beagle3 6y agoPerhaps try to find a less crowded niche. When Ziv approached information theory it was nearly empty by the standards of the time (.. and everything was much less crowded than today, also publish or perish wasn’t yet a thing)