Some useful PhD resources
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I found other academics’ writing useful in navigating PhD life and academia in general. So I thought of putting together a list of them.
- Prof. Matt Might’s blog has a set of articles for graduate students.
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
- The shape of your problem
- A thesis proposal is a contract
- 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency
- Productivity tips, tricks and hacks for academics (2015 edition)
- Reading for graduate students
- Academic martial arts: Defending your Ph.D.
- Academic job search advice
- HOWTO: Get tenure
- Tips for work-life balance
- 12 resolutions for grad students
- Prof.Cal Newport’s Study Hacks blog. His recent articles cover digital ethics and productivity. But the blog archives have a lot of articles from his PhD and pre-tenure days.
- Focus Hard. In Reasonable Bursts. One Day at a Time.
- Some Thoughts On Grad School
- Some More Thoughts on Grad School
- You Know What You Write: The Textbook Method for Ultra-Learning
- How to Read Proofs Faster: A Summary of Useful Advice
- Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours
- Einstein Was Boring Before He Was Brilliant
- How to Win a Nobel Prize: Notes from Richard Hamming’s Talk on Doing Great Research
- How to Read a Paper is a classic of research methodology classes.
- Richard Feynman’s Letter on What Problems to Solve
- You and Your Research, another classic of research methodology classes.