WHEN did you last read your curriculum vitae? Naturally you added this year’s
publications and chopped the rest about a bit to freshen it up, but did you
actually read it?
If, like me, you’ve had one rumbling away for a couple of decades, you’ll
probably find that on closer inspection it resembles a spare room in need of a
good clear-out.
I also have one of those. It’s stacked with scientific ephemera that all
seemed pretty important at the time. On a high shelf is a box file that despite
the deepest of deep guilt, hasn’t been opened since…
