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Second this. I read a few chapters of the book and put it down. I was quite disappointed by its irrelevancy to the current state of the academia. Nothing agains
by geoalchimista 6y ago
Second this. I read a few chapters of the book and put it down. I was quite disappointed by its irrelevancy to the current state of the academia. Nothing against his time. It's just that the world has changed dramatically.
- stanford_labrat 6y agoReally? What made you think that? For example, the first “lesson” is to find a scientific niche early that will be hot in 5-10 years. This seems like decent enough advice to a young scientist.
- warlog 6y agoMy advice is to only buy the winning lottery tickets and to stop wasting it on the losing tickets.
- croissants 6y agoI think his advice is a little more valuable than that. I've seen plenty of grad students who just work on whatever their advisor is interested in and don't think about the future. Periodically re-assessing to figure out what will be important in the near future could be helpful to them.
- mnky9800n 6y agoDid you read a PhD is not enough! I found the level of cynicism in that book to be much more relevant to being a scientist today.