by Gavin Lucas | 06/03/2024 | General
We’re changing our name to TPM Science. This is partly because we no longer just review scientific papers (see below), and partly because of the negative connotations of our old name. It turns out that in academia, a “paper mill” is a derogatory term for...
by Gavin Lucas | 07/03/2023 | Training
The ‘Monkey’ in this case is ‘responsibility for completing a given task’. This quirky metaphor comes from a classical article published in the Harvard Business Review in the early 1970s by management guru William Onken, who came up with it to...
by Gavin Lucas | 12/12/2022 | Training
The research world is necessarily built around researchers who are driven by questions. But I think most researchers are not driven by the question, but by the enjoyment of simply doing research. In the end, this forces many of us out of the system, and ultimately...