damn, that guy is the real deal. ive known plenty of researchers who could draw in big funding amounts by playing the game, with the value of results being more debateable. but it seems like he has put together some massive programs with immediate practical applications.
i also totally get it, too. when all you’re doing is turning your gears to solve important problems everyone agrees are important and the infants at top of the pyramid start threatening to monkeywrech everything if you don’t sing to them for the right to keep going… it’s just stupid, demoralizing, and disruptive enough for someone with options to take a step back, plan and execute a contingency.
if you critically interrupt somebody competent–outside the typical systems of checks internal to project management–from putting all their efforts into doing something important and make them pitch themselves to a nepo-baby to be allowed keep going, there’s a really high chance they are going to realize its not worth the frustration and leave for somewhere that won’t do that shit.
ive been in a similar position and probably a lot of public service people have by now, especially in the last decade or so as austerity has infected the research field, turning disciplines against each other to compete more fiercely over smaller pools of politically-charged dollars. the trump phenomenon is just the latest and most acute.
i am honkey-town and my mandarin is non-existent, but even i was looking at a path to china to continue my research. it would have been a huge personal lift and i had just finished grad school, wanting nothing more than to just take a breath for a year to work 1 job, full time, and then I’d evaluate such a big decision. i was mentally exhausted by fulltime work + school.
a little later, that path was burnt by sinophobic DoD decree (under Biden).
if i was a PRC national with family and friends there, you couldn’t pay me enough to stick around this toilet. especially now that its clogged but people keep shitting.
damn, that guy is the real deal. ive known plenty of researchers who could draw in big funding amounts by playing the game, with the value of results being more debateable. but it seems like he has put together some massive programs with immediate practical applications.
i also totally get it, too. when all you’re doing is turning your gears to solve important problems everyone agrees are important and the infants at top of the pyramid start threatening to monkeywrech everything if you don’t sing to them for the right to keep going… it’s just stupid, demoralizing, and disruptive enough for someone with options to take a step back, plan and execute a contingency.
if you critically interrupt somebody competent–outside the typical systems of checks internal to project management–from putting all their efforts into doing something important and make them pitch themselves to a nepo-baby to be allowed keep going, there’s a really high chance they are going to realize its not worth the frustration and leave for somewhere that won’t do that shit.
ive been in a similar position and probably a lot of public service people have by now, especially in the last decade or so as austerity has infected the research field, turning disciplines against each other to compete more fiercely over smaller pools of politically-charged dollars. the trump phenomenon is just the latest and most acute.
i am honkey-town and my mandarin is non-existent, but even i was looking at a path to china to continue my research. it would have been a huge personal lift and i had just finished grad school, wanting nothing more than to just take a breath for a year to work 1 job, full time, and then I’d evaluate such a big decision. i was mentally exhausted by fulltime work + school.
a little later, that path was burnt by sinophobic DoD decree (under Biden).
if i was a PRC national with family and friends there, you couldn’t pay me enough to stick around this toilet. especially now that its clogged but people keep shitting.