Research output
Mindset and approach
- When your main goal as an academic is to learn about and solve the most important problems, publications and other activities are byproducts
- Successful individuals often reverse-engineer recipes for success and ignore external factors
- 10 habits for a successful postdoc
- Characteristics of successful researchers and founders
- Success can distract you from focusing on the things that produce success in the first place
- Principles of Effective Research
- If research output functioned like open source projects, it would be easier to correct, improve upon and build on your findings
- A sustainable way to keep up with the research literature is to read with a goal in mind
- Subtle or slow progress in research feels frustrating and unrewarding
Project selection
Transclude of block work-on-the-right-things
Transclude of block less-is-more
Collaboration
- Positivity, contribution, and aligned ambitions are traits of great scientific collaborators
- Success in academia leads to outside demands on your time and focus