People often talk about paper reading as a skill, but there aren’t that many examples of people walking through how they do it. Part of this is a problem of supply: it’s expensive to document one’s thought process for any significant length of time, an…
Written quickly as part of the Inkhaven Residency.Related: Bureaucracy as active ingredient, pain as active ingredientA widely known secret in academia is that many of the formalities serve in large part proof of work. That is, the reason expensive pro…
Written quickly as part of the Inkhaven Residency.At a high level, research feedback I give to more junior research collaborators tends to fall into one of three categories:Doing quick sanity checksSaying precisely what you want to sayAsking why one mo…
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 checksSaying precisely what you want to sayAsking why one …