What about, y'know, doing the actual research you're supposed to be writing about?

I wish I knew this when I was starting out:

• write grant proposals instead of articles
• use the winning grants to support grad students
• get the grad students to do the research and writing which motivate new grant proposals
• keep writing grant proposals until the entire world is either your grad students, or people funding your research

At my peak, I easily posted a million words a year to Reddit. The idea that I wasn't putting that effort into actual productive writing is definitely an idea I've had many, many times.

Love it when people publish just to publish, really improves the whole academic enterprise!

This seems like it should be in the LinkedInLunatics community.

Lol someone is equating writing the next twilight saga to research, which requires (checks notes) ... research

4000 words? That's only like 40 minutes a day at 100 wpm, a speed anyone writing professionally should easily be able to maintain. Spend half the workday writing. 24000 words a day. 6 times the articles. Thank me later.

This is like the myth of the 10x AI developer. Even if I could code 10x faster, coding is only maybe 25% of what I do at best.

/insanelinkedinposts

Bonus points if you take all those words you wrote, sort them alphabetically, and publish them as ~3k word works. Challenge the STEM community to reconstruct your original papers.

I know of a manager who unironically believes this for internal corporate technical reports (ours are academic style and more rigorous and formal than they need be...). It's not quite to this extent, but I've overheard conversations where the manager apparently can't fathom why their subordinates are incapable of double digits over a year.

I remeber something about monkeys and typewriters 🤔

Was even Paul Erdös that productive?

Easy there Mr. Hubbard!