Considering grad school?
The list of things that helped me and still go back to.
Starting out
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. by Matt Might, and the rest of his articles
- So You’re Starting a PhD? by Mike Rosulek
Doing the work
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
- De-Mystifying Good Research and Good Papers by Fei-Fei Li
- How to Referee a Paper by Alan Jay Smith
- How to Write Good Technical Documentation
- How to Get New Ideas and How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham
- How to Not Get Stuck by Camille Fournier
Staying sane
- Life Lessons That My PhD Taught Me by Chhavi Yadav
- A Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy
- How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
Asking for help
- How to Ask Good Questions by Julia Evans
- Don’t ask to ask, just ask and the XY problem
Misc
Types of Scientific Paper, because sometimes you just need to laugh about it.

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