And how short-term thinking can be dangerous
"I do find it credible that science might be facing a sort of systemic stagnation brought forth by a set of poorly aligned incentives. The peer-reviewed paper accepted at a good venue as the ultimate metric seems to be at the core of the problem." -- https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/01/peer-reviewed-papers-are-getting-increasingly-boring/
"I do find it credible that science might be facing a sort of systemic stagnation brought forth by a set of poorly aligned incentives. The peer-reviewed paper accepted at a good venue as the ultimate metric seems to be at the core of the problem." -- https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/01/peer-reviewed-papers-are-getting-increasingly-boring/