A student was telling me, they haven’t read some papers I asked them to read because it takes them a very long time.

Well, let me tell you: it took me 20 days (with 2-4 hours per day) to read a single large paper in my field, to understand the multiple years of work that went into it with its many implications for my own research and for the broader field. 20 days. And it was worth it.

There are no shortcuts.

#academia