[FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

Marcus Daniels marcus at snoutfarm.com
Fri Jan 11 09:58:50 EST 2019


Glen writes:

< I interviewed one of his mentors there and, although the model *seems* good, they're similarly plagued with the grant-writing burden Eric(S) and Pamela mention.  The same seems similar at a company, here called Galois. >

That's my impression of Galois as well, that they do a lot of job-by-job things (SBIR funding), and don't have investors with a long-term vision.
At LANL, there's a split between people that have long-term core program work (there are no real issues with getting funding, but the work is not inspiring and sometimes doesn't even make sense), the science community (full time grant-writing, where some players are much more equal than others), and what I would call forward-looking programs (hustle and fight for territory -- it is almost like start-up).    But it is hard to have much hope for a complex that is run by a person (Rick Perry) that ran a campaign on the premise of shutting it down.

Especially in the Trump era, I think private research is the place to be.  Preferably for a company that has multi-national investors.

Marcus



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