David Wheeler: I have deliberately steered away from administration but also in particular from understanding how the present administrative system works. This application instead of going to the person who will be your boss or the person who is actually connected with what you will be doing it goes to a committee somewhere whose task is to examine all such applications that a given funding entity usually a government entity is going to fund. So the people there are not connected with the particular research they are not familiar with the particular problem well of course they are not in fundamental research and more inventing new problems than solving them. The net effect of that is that the postdoc type people that I know have to spend literally many weeks filling out the

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