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How To Tame Your PhD

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"Social origins of good ideas" — location: 345 ^ref-29896

'bridgers' discuss ideas with a wide range of people, not just the ones closest to hand. — location: 355 ^ref-42162

"the certain path to being creative is to find a constituency more ignorant than yourself" and notes that this is a common tactic in academia — location: 359 ^ref-7402

"Keep regular hours" — location: 473 ^ref-43347

"and write everyday". — location: 474 ^ref-26496

"Treat your supervisor like a boss" recommended another over a cup of coffee, "think about what makes them look good and do it". — location: 474 ^ref-10208

They say the worst students make the best teachers because they really know what it is like to struggle. — location: 481 ^ref-38573

Time management is a concept invented in the industrial age and designed to help people run factories, not intellectual work. — location: 496 ^ref-35188

Writing new stuff should be almost the first thing you do when you sit down to your desk. — location: 609 ^ref-63213

If you couple a lack of commitment with a tendency to excessive self-critique you will be in real trouble. — location: 810 ^ref-15121

people will judge you on what you have done - not the ideas you have in your head. — location: 818 ^ref-12362