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Some of the best writers, such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce, might disagree with short sentences.

The analogy seems to be like learning classical music (like piano or violin) after as an adult. You learn the basics like scales and chords to build and build to modern jazz. But i…

That’s not salary that’s research funds to hire students and start the lab.

Does the the ⁡(,1) conjecture paper in annnals of Math say 7 years between submission and acceptance? Insane

No it’s not. Chinese restaurant cuisine is not defined by home cuisine at all. They are almost orthogonal. You go to a Chinese restaurant to eat something that cannot be made at ho…

Italian restaurant cuisine today is judged by whether it tastes like the way their particular Italian grandma made it. Asian restaurant cuisine is judged by partly by how different…

It is better to be overworked than underworked

How is this different than telling people to do a PhD, then run your own research group as a professor, get tenure and get lifetime job security? Or work in start up, get acquired,…

Check Physics and Chemistry Nobel prize of last 5 years, Google was involved in half of them.

I think it technically means they have a permanent endowed position.

Most researchers in Switzerland are non-Swiss, and many institutes have English as language of business

Essentially a PhD thesis style grilling to replace the current text slop

It doesn’t matter honestly, 65k versus 80k after 42% tax on the extra 15k is about 800 euros a month. Not qualitatively different.

I found it the right granularity. He talks about USA, China, and Europe: within each have considerable diversity in culture, history, and identity. He mentions Europe without more …

At 9 figures I’m sure the founder can trickle down a few for everyone including employers after the sale.

Do you have a family or people you need to take care of? Life is more than sustaining your own existence.

You forgot to account for the 100+ employees. The liquidity event would have helped their families as well.

Can you imagine a singer who will continue singing even after getting 50 million ? To some people, their careers are interesting in and of itself, beyond money. This applies to man…

Literature, music, art; they are all intertwined aren’t they? I find at their purest form they are striving for similar goals: pulling out from our collective unconscious a life af…

Are you suggesting science and innovation are distinct? Scientific progress is largely driven by the “Steve Jobs” of sciences. Only a tiny fraction of papers remain relevant. So th…

I think a mix of the current system with more permanent researchers makes sense. There is a lot of work in research that fits the permanent worker better than the fresh 22 year old…

Your suggestion would have fewer fresh eyes to look at the problem. If the scientific enterprise were just about churning out widgets, then yes it’s better to have permanent staff.…

Literature is like classical music. One can argue Beethovens 9th symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music of all time, but that doesn’t mean we all have time to sit through …

The meme of dude standing in corner while everybody else dances as he utters an elitist thought to himself explains many jazz musicians, especially the protagonist in whiplash

This is also the philosophy espoused by Taleb. You want that job that involves tinkering, playing, and an option to select winners.