Asking for help finding an article
This is a shot in the dark but I'm trying to find an article once posted here. My recollection and google-fu is coming up short.
The context is a researcher is working hard but there is a different researcher in the same facility that is the golden boy. He goes to his boss and tries to commiserate and his boss basically says, "don't be jealous, imagine if you worked as hard as him."
The rest of the article is a breakdown of the compounding effect of hard work. It's a great read and I need to hear it again.
Please let me know if you have any luck.
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> I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!