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Connecting the Dots - A Career Across Exploration and Research, with John Thompson
John Thompson is a geoscientist who spent five decades deliberately moving between industry and academia. After studying geology at Oxford, he went on to explore for magmatic sulphides in Norway and Maine, spend four years in Australia, found the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at UBC, and serve as Chief Geoscientist and VP of Technology at Teck.
The thread running through John's career is something he diagnoses with frankness - a limited attention span. What is clear from this conversation is how that apparent flaw became a kind of competitive advantage. Where most scientists pick a lane, John…
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