For a scientist or a a thinker, life should be no more than 9 part production, 1 part dissemination or promotion, enough to maintain social contact and get feedback seminars with some peers that entail discussions or communication with the tribe on this page count as production. For artisans, life is 10 parts production, zero promotion. Alas for academics, from what I observe, life is 19 parts dissemination and institutional fluff, or pedagogy, 1 part production, and declining for “superstars”, who seem to converge to 20 parts dissemination.

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