Day 25 — Synthesis memo — A new form of writing

Day 34 — Follow-up on speed reading

Reading has been one of the key components of my work of the past few months. Even though I have…

Day 20 — Condensing the notes (700 pages to 4 pages)

Day 26 — Brown bag seminar on steroids

Have you ever attended a brown bag seminar? What are they and why are they called like this…

Commitment to start

Nassim Taleb talks about people not being able to step back into their own shoes from the past and see events that have…

4 — How to move from a half-baked theory to a real one

Theory development is a deep topic. Why should…

Day 13 — Minimum Viable Research (MVR) — the start-up approach to research

Day 12 — Literature review — the systematic approach

Day 32 — Note on self-criticism

Today I attended a seminar where we discussed several papers — including one whose main author was a…

1 — First advice

These are the first pieces of advice that I have received when starting my doctoral…