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After devolving into managers, the most senior/successful people reach a point where they can contract-out their management functions and return to doing actual
by sandworm101 5y ago
After devolving into managers, the most senior/successful people reach a point where they can contract-out their management functions and return to doing actual research themselves. Or they are just so great from day one that they tell their bosses they don't want to administer grad students/junior researchers.
- Qem 5y agoEven the particularly successful/well known ones must take care to not fall victim of the Carl Sagan effect. See https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/36/7/2077.full.pdf https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/36/7/2077.full.pdf TLDR: Some current Einsteins may be hiding, in case their peers think they are slacking by wasting time making their discoveries well know by laypeople, and becoming famous, instead of doing their job.