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The US NIH recently changed the grant format, among other things adding a new section titled “Innovation.” Many of us have wondered: how can we convey innovation if we’re using standard techniques and methods? Morgan has some ideas on this, illustrated with an iPad and a razor.
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A colleague recently said to me, “Graduate education is fundamentally a fact-based activity.” I respond to that somewhat misguided view in the latest video. In my view, a graduate education (particularly PhD) is a skills based endeavor, not a fact based one.
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I was recently speaking to an entrepeneurial fellow, and he made a comment that stuck in my mind: “people like you and I are unemployable.”
It didn’t take me long to realize that he was right.
He was referring, overall, to the entrepeneur personality.
The “problem” with entrepreneurs is that they can’t just accept the way things are – they have to go around always trying to make things “better”.
That’s great if you’re starting a new business, or running a certain kind of ...(read more)
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