"Changing the world through slack & hobbies" by Steven Byrnes
LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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Solar Cells - A Novel Approach to Solar Cell Research
I worked in four labs. The first two were each doing interesting, trendy physics superficially related to solar cells. I wound up co-authoring a total of two papers in that category before switching labs. In my free time, I thought of a maybe practically useful solar cell project. We got a lovely paper out of it, but our patent application got rejected for stupid reasons. Well, I guess I learned something valuable about my skills and inclinations.
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