Yup! I always wonder where these caricatures of academia come from. Another thing that stood out to me was "you need to generate good-enough results quickly."

Yup! I always wonder where these caricatures of academia come from. Another thing that stood out to me was "you need to generate good-enough results quickly." I'm sure there are a few lavishly-funded groups where you can spend eons designing the perfect experiment, collecting noiseless data, and writing it up like Shakespeare (Or GRR Martin) . For the rest of us, especially in soft-money jobs, the name of the game is picking one thing to hone for each project and satisficing everything else.