As a postdoc 15 years ago, I learned I was a mediocre researcher, worse-than-mediocre teacher, and better-than-mediocre research supervisor. This profile is a death sentence in academia, a blessing as a blogger, and good for program management in R&D labs/funding agencies
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Things I now know I’m no good for: traditional academia, startup entrepreneurship, journalism, theater/acting/directing, middle management, industry analyst, patent generating machine (“fellows” in industrial R&D), marketing. I quit all those things at the right time.
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I've often had a concurrent calling to try x while perhaps winding down a pursuit of y. But if the disciplines are too antipodean I may wonder if I'm being rational.
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