My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.
I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.
For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
I sometimes wonder why I do so much research - I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.