This was actually planned for back in March, and here we are in December, not, unfortunately, giving it in Google itself but from the very unglamorous location of my spare bedroom.But I'm very excited to be talking to you today about my research on supermassive black holes, my favorite topic, really, and how they could
But I did sun path to know exactly where the sun was going to be and I'd hung some silks up on the windows so if it came out I would be able Just how difficult and unglamorous it is.
But in order to do that, we did do a lot of prep. This is a little bit unglamorous and tedious. But of course, you can't just give an MP3 to a model like this.
And then with modern cellphones, you can record yourself, not only your audio. And successful projects go through this unglamorous hard phase of trying to finish it.
law, and at a similar trajectory of solar. So something completely unrelated also at this exponentially deflating rate. And the bottom two charts are for a very unglamorous technology most people don't even know this, but it's very important, lighting, LEDs, and so on.
slicing their hands on glass plates, and shivering for hours on end in old flight suits while peeing into thermoses. Yes. That's about the most unglamorous thing I can think of. And I'm just curious, were you surprised when you jumped into the field that it would be like this, sort of like-- almost like a bait and switch?
of the world being-- Right. In other words, the story might be so unglamorous and so unsexy that the only place the benefit of blockchain shows up is in the earnings reports of very boring industrial companies that are moving things across the country and finding ways
And so, the magic happens when you apply grit, and you can't have magic without grit. So don't get discouraged by the grit and the mundane moments and the unglamorous moments. Where your throat is sore, and you don't want to keep working, and you're tired.
You talk about the highs. You talk about the lows, the glamour, the unglamorous , all in the middle of a pandemic, and you just had a baby. What motivated you to want to tell this story?
the addition of a new child is actually comfortable being left alone with all of your children. And so on this glorious weekend in May, I tore my way through some very unglamorous , but highly practical Saturday chores, mostly related to the domestic sphere.
of the night sky. But there were so many descriptions in your book about how historically, the actual act of observing has been so unglamorous . My favorite quote was you were saying the observers would then disperse to their respective telescopes for another evening of scrambling into cages,
All those little details add up to excellence. And it's not always the people who are the quick studies who are willing to put in those hours and hours of behind the scenes unglamorous work. So sure, Google should hire talented people.