Why does the paper have the title of a clickbaitey BuzzFeed article?
I never really had the intellectual talent or salesmanship for that, my gripe is that academia has this unsettling undercurrent of boasting and bluffing and backstabbing and it makes it just an unpleasant community in which to forge a livelihood.
Surely a healthy measure of these things has always existed, but the incentives has become perversely perverse and it really drives away people with a genuine aptitude and interest from areas where they can make genuine discoveries about nature and contribute to the sum of human knowledge.
And it drove me away too.
My job largely revolves around seeming important, not doing good work.
That happens in companies too. It's really strange. OTOH we also know that any objective measures will be gamed, which I guess is the same thing. Perceptions are more important than reality sometimes.