I think some of this is fine, but doesn’t match the pressure people put on themselves in Europe, and the expectations people put are put under in the US. For m

I think some of this is fine, but doesn’t match the pressure people put on themselves in Europe, and the expectations people put are put under in the US. For me in the U.K. there were 7 chapters to my thesis that I worked on for roughly 3.5 years. Two of those were “failures” in that they weren’t publishable as positive results but the others worked OK. One was an algorithm paper and I published the source code to GitHub because while it wasn’t useful to me (slower than the competing algorithm we already used) it was applicable in more general situations and it has proved to be so as people have emailed me about it at various times and it’s been cited.