Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 11:04:46 UTC, Tony wrote:
> How are you defining "capitalizing"?

Climbing the ladder.

Many researchers don't want to climb the ladder (e.g. become head 
of department or even group leader) because it means that they 
spend 100% of their time on administration and none on research. 
So you'll see effects like having the leadership being passed 
around or being the result of peer pressure. Many already have 
50% teaching, then a lot of overhead for 
administration/supervision, so maybe the time left over for 
actual research is 40% + spare time. Take any kind of leadership 
role and the research time may be swallowed by "urgent issues". 
Some researchers are also very conscious and probably spend more 
than they should on teaching which further erode available time. 
Another issue is that on the entry level research is more 
individualistic, but higher up it pays off to be in the same area 
as you colleges and being part of a community. So there are many 
reasons for people with tenure to stick to a smaller research 
area that they know well, but the bottomline is that if you only 
have 3 months to produce a quality paper then you have to stay 
specialized.

IMO, the most interesting papers are still published by 
experienced researchers, only in the rare cases are their early 
papers the most interesting.