Hard to imagine safer papers than those imposed by every-4-month deadlines and every-6-month performance reviews. The industry I'm in is beholden to these, so I don't see safety as a purely academic problem.
“Einstein later expressed gratitude that he ended up as a patent examiner rather than an assistant professor, for academia might have induced him to publish ‘safe’ papers that embraced accepted theories.”
from Melissa Schilling (@mschilli1)’s recent book:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35397862-quirky …
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Time to get a job at the patent office?
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I guess industry labs that engaged in academic research didn’t really exist in the early 1900’s yet
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And yeah, what’s with these every-6-month performance reviews, in research labs?
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Did the book mention that Einstein claimed even the patent he was reading was helping him daydream about trains, electric switches, thermodynamics? Maybe beat reading “real” papers of his days?
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Yeah it did!
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Haha, maybe one shouldn’t take underemployment as all bad, if you can make something of it.
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