Jeff Holmes: preference

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…But same country. Yes, same energy. This is my favorite from the year, I think, because actually, it describes an element of my own production function, that I talk to myself, and I often get very loud and obnoxious. Sometimes I scare other people that are around me and have no idea I’m doing it. Me and Fara got that in common. Let’s do two more, and then we’ll call it quits. “My favorite Onion article was titled ‘NSF Studies Show Science is Hard.’ What is people’s response to that, the fact that science is hard? A lot of people will go and say, ‘Well, if I’m going to expend a lot of energy, I better do something that somebody else thinks is important.’ They look to the sides, and they think that doing something somebody else thinks is important is their mission. I think about the [research subject] and I think, ‘What is the coolest thing that I could do with my time now, or this day, this next day ahead of me that would solve something?’” I have no idea on that one. Maybe I’ll guess Daniel Carpenter, but that’s a stab in the dark.…

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