Idioms
We all know "publish or perish". I have been playing with "launch or lose" and "grants or go", any other/better pithy slogans that describe a researcher's life?
I realized this week in a meeting that we have people who see the tree and those that see the forest, neither is useful. We need people who see a tree and know it is in a forest.
I realized this week in a meeting that we have people who see the tree and those that see the forest, neither is useful. We need people who see a tree and know it is in a forest.
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posted by metoo at 5:25 AM
7 Comments:
...and we need people who see a forest and know it's made of trees.
the phrase always makes me wonder the "or" is exclusive or not. More blatantly, what happens to most researchers is "publish and perish".
The old adage from the MIT Media Lab comes to mind: Demo or Die
Sadly what I have observed among so many graduate students is the idea: cheat or leave
demo or die, cheat or leave, ....
I thought it will be nice to get something positive. Now it seems an explicit "and" is better than an implicit "and" via the ambiguous "or".
How about: talk and travel, coffee and collaborate, .... Not as punchy?
-- metoo
As a grad student life is around: Apartment - Department, Advisor - Budweiser
I like cheat or leave...sound so cool.
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