Mention prior advice, e. g. by John Wentworth (and I’m pretty sure I saw more; maybe we need a tag “Independent Research Career” here on LW)
In the context of upskilling, refer to the call for distillers. Distilling (summarising, explaining, connecting with other ideas) is not just very valuable for the community (because, historically, it suffers from the too big “idea surface ratio” per a researcher, some NIH (not invented here) tendencies, and a disconnect from the academia), but also critical for learning because without writing things down, almost nothing from what has been read is retained and used long term.
Refer to some resources/reading that should help one to become a better researcher independently (which means, without much learning by absorbing practices from peers in an academic institution, and without much mentorship/guidance), such as:
Some advice from John Wentworth in the post already linked above (“The Hamming Question” is taken from The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, “Use Your Pareto Frontier”), and this post (section “Guiding Principles”)
… definitely, there are more things that are probably very important that I’m not aware of. Maybe let’s apply some hive intelligence and create a shared google doc with a list of such resources.
Good advice. Some ways to make it even better:
Mention prior advice, e. g. by John Wentworth (and I’m pretty sure I saw more; maybe we need a tag “Independent Research Career” here on LW)
In the context of upskilling, refer to the call for distillers. Distilling (summarising, explaining, connecting with other ideas) is not just very valuable for the community (because, historically, it suffers from the too big “idea surface ratio” per a researcher, some NIH (not invented here) tendencies, and a disconnect from the academia), but also critical for learning because without writing things down, almost nothing from what has been read is retained and used long term.
Refer to some resources/reading that should help one to become a better researcher independently (which means, without much learning by absorbing practices from peers in an academic institution, and without much mentorship/guidance), such as:
Hamming’s The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Nielsen’s Principles of Effective Research
Something about how to read a scientific paper (I don’t know how this particular resource is good; googling “how to read a scientific paper” gives a lot of results)
Some advice from John Wentworth in the post already linked above (“The Hamming Question” is taken from The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, “Use Your Pareto Frontier”), and this post (section “Guiding Principles”)
A few more suggestions from here:
How to write a paper
Keep your experiments separate
Research Taste Exercises
What Makes a Good Research Proposal?
… definitely, there are more things that are probably very important that I’m not aware of. Maybe let’s apply some hive intelligence and create a shared google doc with a list of such resources.