On Becoming a Scientist (openresearch.wordpress.com)

20 points by Siah 15y ago ↗ HN

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about the last point- hiding personal opinions about world politics, economics, etc to avoid negative career consequences... can you give any examples of how these opinions, especially un-orthodox ones, could hurt a researcher working in an entirely unrelated field? curious....

koroviev 15y ago ↗

Well, for one thing, they are perfectly suited for extremely long periods of procrastination in the form of internet arguments.

ch 15y ago ↗

I really like this author's writing style. His RSS feed is unfortunately not working at the moment. Otherwise I would subscribe to his newsletter!

Siah 15y ago ↗

His feed is working just use this link (http://openresearch.wordpress.com/feed/) or if you are using google reader just add his weblog url to your reader (http://openresearch.wordpress.com/)