I’ve heard this described as snorkeling versus SCUBA diving in disciplines. I would say I am more of a free diver 🤣. I thought it might not be a good career move but it was so much more fun for me.
Same tool but I focused on modern 🌊 chemistry as a post doc after getting my PhD in (mostly) paleo 🌊. They’re different communities which meant a bit of starting over, which was fun! But I’m pretty sure it hurt my career. For example, colleagues said things like “I don’t know what he does“
See this great podcast about the donation that established #Rowanwww.pushkin.fm/episode/my-l...
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking?
I’ve had a few recently! And if the audience is there (a big if at AGU) they can be a lot better than a talk.
I found a few friends on there thanks. Can you please add me to the list?