There are of course a lot of things I would like to change or improve, but I don't know if I share your broad pessimism on academia or research. Science and en

There are of course a lot of things I would like to change or improve, but I don't know if I share your broad pessimism on academia or research. Science and engineering are very different endeavours, and while both should take lessons from each other, you just can't approach science in the same way that you approach engineering.