Traditional R&D (ie PhDs) is ass-backwards. You should race to your first original idea as fast as poss, *then* invest in discipline mastery
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There is a pick-2-of-3 tradeoff among received knowledge, productivity, and imagination. Institutions want you to give up imagination
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I am eternally grateful to PhD advisor for valuing imagination and letting me sacrifice treadmill "productivity." Saved my sanity 18y ago

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