Yesterday some friends and I were discussing the advantages of working in research (as opposed to working for a company developing products). I said that to me the advantages of working in research are neatly encapsulated within a joke I heard when I was a boy. It goes like this.<\/p>\n
A man is walking down the street, and he sees a boy in an alley with a bow and arrow. The boy is shooting arrows at a wall which is fairly far away. The man sees that the boy has already shot a number of arrows into the wall, and each arrow has hit the exact center of a bullseye.<\/p>\n
Impressed, the man asks the boy “Could you show me how to shoot like that?” The boy says, “Sure, if you give me fifty dollars.” The man decides this is a good deal, considering how skilled the boy is. He hands the boy a fifty dollar bill, and the boy says, “Watch, I’ll show you how to do it.”<\/p>\n
The boy then picks up his bow, and shoots an arrow against the wall. Then he walks up to the wall, picks up a piece of chalk, and draws a series of concentric circles around the arrow head.<\/p>\n
And that, my friends, is why I like working in research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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