If I had one year to live, I’d spend less time studying deep stuff that I don’t expect to usefully understand for some time to come, and as a result if I nonetheless live longer I’ll understand less and won’t be able to make contributions that I could make otherwise.
Anonymoussays:
Because I am far away from tenure 🙂
And I need less risk and more output. This implies that the paper I would like to do is more uncertain regarding output.
Delip Raosays:
If I knew what I would write in my one-last-research-paper I would have written it (long ago).
> If you could only write one more research paper…
I’d write a very long one. A very very long one. Which I have, btw, started.
Alberto Rozenfarbsays:
I agree with your challenge, and I learned to be an researcher at 65 and Im preparing a paper about the “Impact of Business Intelligence in decision making processes”.
If this subject interest you, please, let me know and I will send you a copy to publish it or spred my point of view.
I think this is a very, very good suggestion. Especially since one year is neither too short, nor too long, so it allows a carefull selection of topic.
If I had one year to live, I’d spend less time studying deep stuff that I don’t expect to usefully understand for some time to come, and as a result if I nonetheless live longer I’ll understand less and won’t be able to make contributions that I could make otherwise.
Because I am far away from tenure 🙂
And I need less risk and more output. This implies that the paper I would like to do is more uncertain regarding output.
If I knew what I would write in my one-last-research-paper I would have written it (long ago).
> If you could only write one more research paper…
I’d write a very long one. A very very long one. Which I have, btw, started.
I agree with your challenge, and I learned to be an researcher at 65 and Im preparing a paper about the “Impact of Business Intelligence in decision making processes”.
If this subject interest you, please, let me know and I will send you a copy to publish it or spred my point of view.
Because I’m reading your blog!
I think this is a very, very good suggestion. Especially since one year is neither too short, nor too long, so it allows a carefull selection of topic.