In the last post, I explained the title of the column comes from the book by Charles Murray The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead. With the Curmudgeon in mind, I have a few more comments to make about our life as Researchers, pushing the leading edge of technology in our industries. In small companies it helps to be a contrarian, to develop novel algorithms in areas overlooked by large research groups or the academic groups funded by them. One such technology that our group started working … [Read more...]
Archives for 2020
The Curmudgeon’s Column
Recently I gave each of my 5 kids a copy of a book I was delighted to read, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead, by Charles Murray, fatherly advice to young people who enter the workforce. I identified with the Curmudgeon, hence the title of this column. Murray’s book started as postings on the internal website of the American Enterprise Institute where he works, with tips for entry level staff and interns such as: Excise the word “like” from your spoken English.Don’t … [Read more...]