Let’s Not Confuse Domestic Research With Academic Research

Both have their place

a robed scientist looks at his smartphone through a complex microscope in a futuristic lab, realistic cyberpunk style — by DALL·E

Painful Academic Research

Anyone who has had the fortune or misfortune of doing academic research at a higher or lower degree will know how painful it is. Granted, I know people who love it and whose lives revolve around it; indeed, they enjoy it as much as I do making music or writing. Perhaps painful…