This resonates with Sara Billeys advice for PhDs : https://sites.math.washington.edu/~billey/advice/timely.fashion.pdf https://sites.math.washington.edu/~billey

This resonates with Sara Billeys advice for PhDs : https://sites.math.washington.edu/~billey/advice/timely.fashion.pdf https://sites.math.washington.edu/~billey/advice/timely.fash... She recommends 20 hours of research a week. But there is a high bar to what qualifies an hour. Maybe relevant for HN community is that they count programming as half time (ie 2 hours programming is 1 hour of work). When mathematicians say they “work” it’s different than what normal people say is “work”. An analogy is people who do a full proper pull-up versus people who “cheat” to pull themselves up, but both types of people are counting them as pull ups.