José Luis Ricón (Artir) / Soon:  🇯🇵 🇭🇰

... having a standard way of showing work and plans, to make the difference in presentation less important than the difference in substance. (While also allowing for the power of a strong communicator!)

... and similarities abound, like loving the uneven potential outliers, fusing life story and work, acknowledging and discussing unconscious bias, and deliberating about how to deliberate :)

Grateful for the chance to learn from new peers and from students with that spark -- and to @SchmidtFellows for convening all of us. And one more note...

Noticing an enormous power I missed before... the tiny number of people in government who shape the future of what humankind knows, by deciding what research areas to fund. Drives so much of how scientists choose what problems to solve.

Would love to read a history of this. Who in government decides what areas of science to fund, and why -- the logic, fashion, randomness, and politics of it all. Calling @stripepress @patrickc! Pls get @BobbyKasthuri's scrapbook notes...

Such books exist! Check out G. Pascal Zachary's biography of Vannevar Bush, who was America's No.1 technology planner, back in the day.

I’ve read it, and it’s great, but not what I was imagining here...

In particular, it basically stops just as we established the sprawling edifice that is Postwar US Science.