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On thinkers and doers (2022)
Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer's world
To control the program, he created a Top Policy Group consisting of himself—although he never attended a meeting—Wallace, Bush, Conant, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General George C. Marshall. Science was no longer passion projects that patent clerks messed about with in their spare time, or interesting offshoots of preternaturally smart aristocrats, or the necessary consequences of tinkerers and engineers trying very hard to build something anew. Van Zelst and Kerr speculated that this 50-hour bump was concentrated in “physical research which requires continuous use of bulky equipment,” and that most of those 10-hour days were spent tending machines and occasionally taking measurements.
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