This past Tuesday, Roz Warren (who writes for the NYTimes, HuffPost, and various other places) published this quite entertaining and 100% accurate story in the Times about back issues. Roz opens with a quick test that I may have to use in pitches from now on (with due credit, of course): “Are you the kind of person who will develop back problems? Take this easy test: 1. Are you alive? 2. Are you getting older? 3. Do you ever pick things up? If you answered yes to any of these… Read more Will you develop back problems? A simple test from Roz Warren →
(This post originally appeared on TechEntrepreneurship, the TandemLaunch blog, where I’ll be contributing from time to time from now on.) This post is all about a choice many people face… Read more Is grad school useful for young entrepreneurs? Guest post from TechEntrepreneurship →
I talked a few posts ago about how scientific publications might be vanity metrics in disguise– good for showing an illusion of progress, but the enemy of true breakthroughs. Here’s a quick update to that thought: Peter Higgs, the British physicist whose work was the foundation behind the recent discovery of the subatomic particle bearing his name (the Higgs Boson) and who I mentioned in that post, might agree. Speaking recently with the British newspaper The Guardian, Higgs expressed his belief that “no university would employ him in today’s academic… Read more Publications and Vanity Metrics: an update →
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