It’s taken the private sector only six months to give me something that 20+ years in academia didn’t provide: a permanent position.
Continue readingApotheosis (a riff on permanent positions in science)
tenure
Was it really what you wanted? // A change is coming
Did you really “fail” if you didn’t get something that doesn’t exist, or isn’t what you really wanted?
Continue readingGraves’ inversion
A thought experiment: what if career security in academia was inverted, and the positions of junior and senior faculty were reversed? Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 