The Japanese reportedly have a tradition of encouraging academics to switch fields every 10 years. The reason is it is felt if they do not they get calcified in the field, and worse, squash good new ideas as they threaten their own. John likes this and suggests a second tenure meeting, 15 years away from the first one. It would be very unlikely that a person would be allowed tenure in the same field a second time. A quote from John from today "Dick Feynman, yes, go ahead and continue to work on physics, but John Salmon, well you might make some incremental advance to large astrophysics simulation technique, but you should probably apply that big brain to chemistry, biology, xxx".
A whacky idea.
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