From writing papers, to giving presentations, to grad school humor. These are the top 42 books for PhD and graduate students. If you want to survive in graduate school, you must read these books. It is normal to feel lost in the vastness of a PhD project. Graduate school is a though place. You need [...]
PhD Motivation And The 4 Hour Workweek In this post I will describe how you can boost your PhD motivation by adapting the ideas presented in The 4-Hour Workweek book by Tim Ferriss. I have read this book and there are some gems in it that I belief could be used in any PhD project. Focusing on what [...]
(Photo: koalazymonkey) “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” This is Parkinson’s Law, one of the mental models used by Charles Munger and others. It comes to say: the amount of time you have to finish a task, is the amount of time you will use. So what is so special about it? [...]
(Photo: jazzaray) We rarely think why we what we do. It is a fast world where we are living in, no time left to think, just act. Everyday we take thousands of actions: open the door, put your shoes on, grab this, move that, … We do them because we saw our parents doing them [...]
A new book on Chemoinformatics is born. The Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms has been edited by Jean-Loup Faulon and Andreas Bender. It has chapters written by people like Egon Willighagen, Alexander Tropsha, Rajarshi Guha, and Tatsuya Akutsu, among others. I would like to read the chapters “Structure Enumeration and Sampling”, “Open Source Chemoinformatics Software and [...]
I have finished reading the book Getting Real by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier, the guys from 37signals. This book is just awesome, really, just get it. It proposes ideas to create web apps and how to make them viable. Ideas such as having less features, less code, less employees, and less documentation, but more [...]
