Thanks for reading the post Oscar! Going to reply to both of your comments here! I haven’t thought a lot about when one should start “steering” in their career, but I think starting with an approach focussed on rowing makes a lot of sense.
Addressing the idea that steering is less important if we can just fund all possible research agendas, I don’t think this necessarily holds. It seems that we are talent-constrained at least to an extent, and so every researcher focussed on a hopeless / implausible research agenda is one that isn’t working on a plausible research agenda. Thus, even with lots of funding, steering is still important.
Thanks for reading the post Oscar! Going to reply to both of your comments here! I haven’t thought a lot about when one should start “steering” in their career, but I think starting with an approach focussed on rowing makes a lot of sense.
Addressing the idea that steering is less important if we can just fund all possible research agendas, I don’t think this necessarily holds. It seems that we are talent-constrained at least to an extent, and so every researcher focussed on a hopeless / implausible research agenda is one that isn’t working on a plausible research agenda. Thus, even with lots of funding, steering is still important.
Yes, good point, I now think I was wrong about how important the amount of funding is for steering.