By apalazzo on November 9, 2006. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett Tags lab life Log in to post comments More like this Daily life of a scientist in a nutshell... Log in to post comments Do you really want to 'fail better' in science? After years of grad school and postdocing, we become quite good at failing, such that a run-of-the-mill failure usually gets the job done. To fail better than usual can require a years of effort! Log in to post comments Speaking of failure: scratch the 'a' in that final sentence! Log in to post comments How ironic. (Maybe this is an example of postdoc-memory-induced failure.) Log in to post comments Postdocs? I thought this was about the midterm elections. Log in to post comments I guess after the Iraq war and Katrina, the elections were a better failure for the GOP. (According to Google "failure" is the best title for the GOP's leader.) Log in to post comments
Do you really want to 'fail better' in science? After years of grad school and postdocing, we become quite good at failing, such that a run-of-the-mill failure usually gets the job done. To fail better than usual can require a years of effort! Log in to post comments
I guess after the Iraq war and Katrina, the elections were a better failure for the GOP. (According to Google "failure" is the best title for the GOP's leader.) Log in to post comments
Daily life of a scientist in a nutshell...
Do you really want to 'fail better' in science? After years of grad school and postdocing, we become quite good at failing, such that a run-of-the-mill failure usually gets the job done. To fail better than usual can require a years of effort!
Speaking of failure: scratch the 'a' in that final sentence!
How ironic. (Maybe this is an example of postdoc-memory-induced failure.)
Postdocs? I thought this was about the midterm elections.
I guess after the Iraq war and Katrina, the elections were a better failure for the GOP. (According to Google "failure" is the best title for the GOP's leader.)