.@michael_nielsen and I discussed this yesterday in a tweet thread that unfortunately forked so it's a bit hard to point to, but here's one pointer into it:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1196125642342858753 …
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What do you mean by administrative? Do you mean someone like Bode at Bell labs?
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Hamming: I went to my boss, Bode, one day and said, "Why did you ever become department head? Why didn't you just be a good scientist?''
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Yup. Everyone I know who has done this kind of thing well did it 80 hours a week - it's incredibly hard. Doing it on 20% time doesn't sound promising.
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Related: I'm struck over and over by the extent to which there's a gap between people who want to _read_ the research, and those who want to _do_ the research. People who are good at one are often surprisingly bad at the other.
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