And restaurants don’t need HIPAA compliant encrypted servers, negative pressure containment labs, multiple specialized waste streams, support for compliance to multiple federal agencies, and staff with expert training and certifications that take a decade of learning to achieve.

For context: the average overhead for a restaurant is 35%. This is roughly equivalent to a 60% IDC rate ($1.00x0.6=$1.60 and $0.6/$1.60=37.5%). So they want world class research for half of the support it takes to sell a bowl of pasta?

And while every incremental step is essential for science and discovery, those jumps are what change the world.

My brain needs rest from the structured in progress projects and admin work. It needs air and light. It needs space to wander and roam and get just a little bit lost. The linear progression demanded by writing papers or grants is too rigid to let it jump around.

But we utterly fail to make time in our lives for that brilliant spark. The grind keeps grinding. That moment of clarity often comes, not at the desk or bench, but in the shower, walking the dog, or just before sleep. I get this most when I have adequate time away from “work”.

We seem to understand the importance of interdisciplinary inspiration, but still do not incentivize true cross field collaborations. “The team has not yet published together.” Seems the perpetual killer of grants.

The bold epiphany that moves the field requires room to breathe and external inspiration. There are literally endless hypotheses we could falsify. How do we choose which ones to prioritize? And how do we structure a system that allows for the development of truly novel ideas?.

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