Genentech seems like such an interesting company—if I recall, Tom McCarthy ( https://lynkmi.com/t ) was given a good book on them from Laura Deming ( not yet on lynkmi ). Another great book seems to be "Billion Dollar Molecule"—recommended by two smart Irish gingers (Conor Igoe and Patrick Collison) [I really need to add tagging people to this]

The parallels to early element discovery is funny—just go in a mine and find stuff, just go to a forest and find stuff.

Would you consider getting into metascience? I think it's an interesting high-leverage area you could be great in. Would probably have some people for you to chat to you if so.

On the last point: https://peterjohnsen.substack.com/p/help-science-go-faster