Recommended Resources for PhD Students
This page includes some resources that I found during my PhD and right after. These resources helped me find my way through various obstacles that the PhD, as a journey, presents.
Books
- So Good they Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
- Range by David Epstein
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
Articles
- Richard Hamming’s You and Your Research
- Christo Lute’s You and Your Research
- A survival guide to PhD by Andrej Karpathy
- Principles of Effective Research By Michael A. Nielsen
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How to have a bad career in acadademia
Movies
- Finding Forrester
- Molly’s Game
- The Matrix
Music
For Thinking
For Coding
For Reading
If you are too sloppy, you never get any reproducible results and you can never draw any conclusions, but if you are just a little bit sloppy, then when you see something startling you say, ‘Oh my God, what did I do, what did I do different this time?’ and if you really accidentally varied just one parameter, you nail it down
- Max Delbrück
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