>  jobs were plentiful and the research environment was less hectic, due to sharply lower expectations about external support and publication rates. - [[Aspiring academics are people with the urgency and drive of startup founders but with different longer-term payoffs.]] - OTOH, permanent academics may still have the drive but most lose the sense of urgency as the longer-term payoffs do not have a non-linear payoff that is characteristic with businesses. ![[Pasted image 20230107140501.png]] - And I don’t just mean financial payoff but impact, much of which is being delivered today by large industry labs and research orgs working with larger budgets. [[16a My approach to metascience entrepreneurship]]