Looking for an unrelated topic, I stumbled across a transcript of a talk, \u2018You and Your Research\u2019<\/a> \u201cIn summary, I claim that some of the reasons why so many people who have greatness within their grasp don\u2019t succeed are: they don\u2019t work on important problems, they don\u2019t become emotionally involved, they don\u2019t try and change what is difficult to some other situation which is easily done but is still important, and they keep giving themselves alibis why they don\u2019t. They keep saying that it is a matter of luck. I\u2019ve told you how easy it is; furthermore I\u2019ve told you how to reform. Therefore, go forth and become great scientists!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n For me, the most compelling part of his talk is a question we should all be asking ourselves: what are the most important questions\/problems in our respective fields? If we\u2019re not working on them \u2014 why not?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking for an unrelated topic, I stumbled across a transcript of a talk, \u2018You and Your Research\u2019 at Bell Labs given by Richard Hamming in 1986. I think it\u2019s worth reading if you\u2019re a scientist, mathematician or computer programmer. \u201cIn summary, I claim that some of the reasons why so many people who have greatness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confluxion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nat Bell Labs given by Richard Hamming<\/a> in 1986. I think it\u2019s worth reading if you\u2019re a scientist, mathematician or computer programmer.<\/p>\n