Funny stuff, and no doubt often accurate, but it wasn't my experience. I wanted to work in game theory, and there weren't an game theorists in the Harvard mathe

Funny stuff, and no doubt often accurate, but it wasn't my experience. I wanted to work in game theory, and there weren't an game theorists in the Harvard mathematics department; there were, however, in the business school. So I went over there, and Elon Kohlberg told me of an outstanding problem, and gave me a couple of papers to explain. I worked until I had a proof of the conjecture, and that was that, even though it had in fact been proved elsewhere (the Mertens-Neyman Theorem) a couple of months before I finished. The whole thing took about a year, after which I stared my post-doc in public policy. After that, I became a stock analyst. After that, I tried some startups (not successfully). Then I became a self-employed industry analyst. What could be more straightforward than that? :)