Re: [Phys-L] [ Academic BS and other

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

On 2015, Dec 03, , at 11:11, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:

> 2) He's absolutely right that if you go to a conference and don't
>  interact with people, you're mostly wasting your time.  A great
>  deal of useful work gets done in the corridors, involving people
>  who are skipping this-or-that talk.


Garrett Hardin told me (c. 1965) science advanced more at the bar than at the meetings' “talks".  



>    As usual, all the extremes are wrong.  Sometimes giving a great
>    talk is a way if "introducing" yourself.  There might be some
>    guy in the audience who likes the talk and ends up making you
>    a life-changing job offer.  Guess how I know.


That’s how I got my job at the Naval Postgrad. School.  (More correctly my questions of the speaker who hired me.)  


bc,    wasn’t great but worked, and not life changing, but very enjoyable, and military informing.  


After substituting in a local HS, I found the students scholars and gentlemen and women.