An interesting look at the research and research management culture at Bell Labs (via The Browser).

"Over the years, Bell Labs management developed a small but coherent set of constraints and rules of thumb to ensure that its researchers internalized that, as Jim Fisk put it, it was “a matter of individual responsibility” to choose the right problems and that Bell Lab’s success in doing this at scale, across thousands of individuals, was “essentially automatic.”"

https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know?ref=thebrowser.com