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I hugely enjoyed the full memoirs but there is one conclusion which I strongly disagree with. "Outputs trump inputs", the frantic scramble to do something. I sp
by theaeolist 14y ago
I hugely enjoyed the full memoirs but there is one conclusion which I strongly disagree with. "Outputs trump inputs", the frantic scramble to do something. I spent the first three years of grad school reading and talking to people. Then I wroteone good paper which made my name. And when you have a name things are easy.
I was certainly very lucky, but fully and deeply understanding my field helped me do research which was considered by others interesting.
- pgbovine 14y agogreat insight!!! perhaps i should've added more clarification in that section. i guess the way i worked best was to learn by producing; i wouldn't have had the patience to do what you did (consuming deeply for three years -> producing one great work). instead, i learned a great deal by producing a series of failed and semi-failed projects, and eventually what i produced got reasonably good.