> People who can barely deal with the tyranny of daily standups probably would struggle a lot in a world where you need to write grant proposals continuously to justify your existence.
I'm continuously writing grant proposals to justify my existence, and have been quite successful (lucky) in it. But I do bitch about the pointless grant game and about the pointless meetings.
Perhaps the problem is that to survive in academia you have to be able and willing to waste your time on all the bullshit that is not research. And it selects for people who are good and willing at the grantwriting and politics game, which is not the same as being good at research.
Maybe there's some point in bitching about the tyranny. Having tech people to do sales and marketing on the side like researchers have to do probably isn't an ideal division of labor.
I'm continuously writing grant proposals to justify my existence, and have been quite successful (lucky) in it. But I do bitch about the pointless grant game and about the pointless meetings.
Perhaps the problem is that to survive in academia you have to be able and willing to waste your time on all the bullshit that is not research. And it selects for people who are good and willing at the grantwriting and politics game, which is not the same as being good at research.
Maybe there's some point in bitching about the tyranny. Having tech people to do sales and marketing on the side like researchers have to do probably isn't an ideal division of labor.