Dan Ports on Nostr: Just thinking about the time a university decided not to hire me because they didn't ...

Just thinking about the time a university decided not to hire me because they didn't think distributed systems were an important area.

...and then my dad said "yeah, they also decided not to hire me 40 years ago because they said this new-fangled 'angioplasty' thing wasn't going anywhere".

You can draw your own conclusions about academia and its ability to identify important future research areas.