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Re:T-Shaped People and Academia by rini17 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:14AM (#29861704)
Of course anything could be done in exploitative an unethical way but, I don't see such intent here.

There are good points already mentioned. I can add if you hire one person to write unit tests, another for graphics, another for models... then you suffer the overhead of coordinating them. Also, pure research work is often repetitive and drudgery, so being able to come up with cool logo or working on "uninteresting and unexceptional" tools that can be shared with other researchers can maintain the motivation.

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Re:T-Shaped People and Academia by Topolomancer on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:41AM (#29864834)
> Also, pure research work is often repetitive and drudgery, so being able to come up with cool logo or working on "uninteresting and unexceptional" tools that can be shared with other researchers can maintain the motivation.

Author here--thanks, that's a cool way of putting it! (plus, working on such tools, for instance, should be recognised by PIs in an ideal world)

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