Advice

You can get pretty far by:

1. Paying attention
2. Staying healthy
3. Being persistent

Most good general advice is just using more words to emphasize these points by repetition. Do not worry about research strategy till you establish these foundations.

Pithy Precepts

Reading, Watching, and Listening

• Desiderata
• John Regehr’s Blog
• Matt Might’s Blog
• Fogarty on Code and Contribution
• Gabriel on Worse Is Better
• Simon on The Architecture of Complexity
• Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace
• Orwell on Politics and the English Language
• Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD
• So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!
• Hamming on You and Your Research

Some interesting opinions on conferences and opinions:

• Conference Reviewing Considered Harmful
• Low Acceptance Rates of Conference Papers Considered Harmful
• “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

Some useful videos that illustrate a point:

• Gary Bernhardt’s Wat talk on sharp edges in dynamic scripting languages
• Mary Carillo’s epic improvisation shows cohesiveness without coherence (they can be independent!)