Dr. Cal Newport

But they throw a ton of other stuff at you at that time.

It depends on the school.

Like I was like, Georgetown was very good about this.

They're like, we don't, from our perspective, it's a waste of resources to hire you and have you not get tenure.

So like, we wanna try to protect you from, they keep service,

requirements low, for example, and like just focus on, you know, just focus on your research because that's what's going to matter.

And at least professors know this, right?

Like there's a clear process, like the tenure process.

Most people don't understand tenure.

They think it's like getting promoted at a job and there's like all these different ways you can sort of impress your boss.

It's none of that, right?

I mean, it's these confidential letters

from leading scholars in your field that are doing nothing but brutally assessing your research.

How good is Cal?

Who are two people who are better than him on the market right now?

Who are like two people he's slightly better than?

Would you tenure him at your university?

What university could he get tenured at?

I mean, it's all that matters is, yeah, research quality.

So you have to somehow rediscover what that is if you're not a professor.