What Occurs While Skiing.

This occurred to me while skiiing:

Don't be in a hurry to write a book, be in a hurry to get paying customers.

Just so.

Forsaking Tenure

Here is a NY Times article about professors forsaking tenure in order that that may teach better students better content.  One point one professor makes is he finds he can do better work if he is not under the pressure of deadlines to produce academic papers when expected, on some sort of timeline.  I bet in this system he actually produces more and better published works in time.