Haar's Half Measure

What I talk about when I talk about physics.

12 Dec 2022

All David Stern Thought You Need to Know, Really

I came across an article on Twitter the other day about things to remember if you wanted to be a good physicist. I think Preskill tweeted the picture below in response.

All David Stern Thought You Need to Know, Really
Physics Today, May 1993.

I always enjoy this kind of `fragmented advice’ from older people. It is as if you were to stop them in the middle of the street and asked what piece of advice would they give to youngsters, multiple times. The kind of advise old folks come up in 2 seconds is probably a perfect distillation of their thoughts. Of course, carefully structured essays like the one from Weinberg (Nature 2003) are of great stuff, too.

Next time, we'll talk about "Why vim users are the worst :("