I just discovered fellow NRCer Alain Désilets's blog today and so of course can't resist passing it along (I wish more NRC researchers would blog - I wish all of them blogged, I'd organize it all together and create a great leading-edge science newsletter). This is a two part post (Part One, Part Two (currently offline)) on the merits of chasing many rabbits at the same time. By 'rabbits' Désilets means of course multiple research projects. "It can be quite nerve-wracking to put all your eggs in one basket," he writes, "If the basket falls to the ground, you end up having spent years working on a project, with no perceptible impact to show for it." Yup. This first post has a half dozen links to his projects in speech recognition and translation. The second post offers advice on how to succeed at this: choose your rabbits well, use agile methods (short focused bursts), watch for impact, kill the ones that aren't working, and be prepared to drop everything else if one of them takes off.
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