My most common research advice: do quick sanity checks
Written quickly as part of the Inkhaven Residency . At a high level, research feedback I give to more junior research collaborators often can fall into one of three categories: Doing quick sanity checks Saying precisely what you want to say Asking why one more time In each case, I think the advice can be taken to an extreme I no longer endorse. Accordingly, I’ve tried to spell out the degree to which you should implement the advice, as well as what “taking it too far” might look like. This piece covers doing quick sanity checks, which is the most common advice I give to junior researchers. I’ll cover the other two pieces of advice in a subsequent piece. Doing quick sanity checks Research is hard (almost by definition) and people are often wrong. Every researcher has wasted countless hours
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Common research advice #2: say precisely what you want to say
Written as part of the Inkhaven Residency program . As previously mentioned, research feedback I give to more junior research collaborators tends to fall into one of three categories: Doing quick sanity checks Saying precisely what you want to say Asking why one more time In each case, I think the advice can be taken to an extreme I no longer endorse. Accordingly, I’ve tried to spell out the degree to which you should implement the advice, as well as what “taking it too far” might look like. I talked about doing quick sanity checks in a previous piece . Here, I talk about the second piece of advice: saying precisely what you want to say. Saying precisely what you want to say The second most common feedback is that you should write down precisely what you want to express. One of the most co
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