[PRL] Fwd: TP Msg. #1073 The Astonishing Secret to Getting Jobs, Grants, Papers, and Happiness in Biomedical Research ( and other areas as well)

[David Van Horn]

On 2/4/11 9:56 AM, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Rick Reis* <reis at stanford.edu <mailto:reis at stanford.edu>>
> Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:20 AM
> Subject: TP Msg. #1073 The Astonishing Secret to Getting Jobs, Grants,
> Papers, and Happiness in Biomedical Research ( and other areas as well)
> To: tomorrows-professor <tomorrows-professor at lists.stanford.edu
> <mailto:tomorrows-professor at lists.stanford.edu>>
...
>           The Astonishing Secret to Getting Jobs, Grants, Papers, and
> Happiness in Biomedical Research
...
> Sometime in your past, you read, saw, or heard something about the
> universe that astonished you, so much so that you simply needed to know
> more about it. And the more you learned, the more astonished you became.
> And this approach to knowing something amazing, which could not have
> been known by reason or belief or any other method, convinced you that
> however astonishing it all is, it is as close to "true" as we can get,
> in a way that satisfied you. Many people love to be astonished by all
> sorts of means, but this path to astonishment worked for you, and
> hopefully still does. It's why you became a scientist.

That's what happened to me when I read Griffin's "A Formulae-as-Types 
Notion of Control".

Thanks for the article Mitch.

David