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"'Give me something real to do.' So we sent him out to buy some office supplies." Great moments in management, and proof that Feynman had a well developed sens
by delichon 2y ago
"'Give me something real to do.' So we sent him out to buy some office supplies."
Great moments in management, and proof that Feynman had a well developed sense of humor or this would have been a shorter story. "One of the best minds on Earth just showed up, what do we do?" "We need pencils."
- auselen 2y agoThis story is in “surely you are joking mr. Feynman” or “what do you care what does other people think?”. When they ask him to do something not concrete, that was his answer :) so he was preferring fetching pencils to thinking about applications of some technology…