I first encountered similar advice when reading the slides of David Patterson’s talk “How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia” as an undergraduate in the

I first encountered similar advice when reading the slides of David Patterson’s talk “How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia” as an undergraduate in the late 2000s who was planning a career in computer science research: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pd...