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Re: Biomed - Wave of the Future - Evolve?

Subject: Re: Biomed - Wave of the Future - Evolve?
From: Kat Nagel <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
To: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:18:42 -0400

At 12:20 PM -0400 2003-09-09, Mike O. wrote:

Robert Caro won a Pulitzer prize for writing a biography of Robert Moses,
which makes him an expert on the subject of Robert Moses. Later he wrote a
biography of Lyndon Johnson which also won a Pulitzer prize. How could Caro manage to write well about LBJ, when he was an expert on Robert Moses, not on LBJ?

The answer is that he was an expert *biographer,* not an expert just on any
one individual life. When he started the first book, he wasn't an expert on
Robert Moses. But when he finished, he was.


And that is the point where your analogy begins to look a little wobbly. It took Caro at least 8 years to write each of those LBJ volumes:
1974 The power broker (Moses)
1982 The path to power (LBJ 1)
1990 Means of ascent (LBJ 2)
2002 Master of the Senate (LBJ 3)

What employer or freelance client is going to pay me a living wage for 8 years to write a manual for a medical device or a set of standard operating procedures for a chemistry lab?
--
K@ Kat Nagel

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