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Counting the number of hours in science does not really matter. This work is full of incredibly productive eureka minutes in the middle of unlucky boring days o
by pvaldes 2y ago
Counting the number of hours in science does not really matter. This work is full of incredibly productive eureka minutes in the middle of unlucky boring days or weeks of stunted progress. Scientists don't stop thinking on the problems when they go home. Some significant advances happened even by scientists while dreaming. In some cases sleeping time definitely should count as hours on office, having in mind the results.
If we could remove the bureaucracy load from them, scientists could work even less hours without losing productivity or even increasing it (See: Stephen Hawking).
- calf 2y agoI initially lived for 2 years a mere 200 m. from Einstein's house as all Princeton PhD students are required, so I know what you're trying to convey, but the broader problem is in the interpretation of this anecdotes for nonacademic work and how it gets exploited to tell tertiary industry / knowledge workers to find what they love so that it doesn't count as labor.