"My game — cosmology, dark matter, black holes — has a very particular competitive culture that I don’t fit into. But thankfully this is the thing that time does. If you stick with it, you do good work, then you don’t have to conform; you can eventually just be who you are."

Reminds me of that patent office guy.

Today’s Space Weather News touches on the ‘black hole’ at the center of our galaxy (2:30), and mentions a presentation by the director of Princeton’s Plasma Physics Lab on the magnetic universe. We may really be amidst a Copernican level shift in thinking about how our universe actually operates: https://youtu.be/YX8afWRQkIk

I'm trying and failing to wrap my brain around the passion, hard work, and sheer intelligence reflected by her sky map software anecdote.

With much more powerful computers and frameworks now, I'd still be hard-pressed to write something that sophisticated in 6 weeks, even without having to teach myself new math to do it.

Quite a remarkable woman.