Barriers

It’s as if nothing I ever did applies anymore.

Work Ethic

The key is starting.

Becoming

It’s always good to remember there are different levels of expertise.

Payoff

There’s a reason people choose the usual path.

Interdisciplinary

The trick is to keep splitting up your discipline into smaller and smaller pieces, until you can claim your work goes through a bunch of different areas.

Elevator Pitch

“Do you mean to tell me you’ve spent years working on this, but you don’t know how to explain it to me?!”

“Oh no, I can do it…I’ll let you know this afternoon.” (Proceeds to spend that time frantically searching for a good way to communicate the idea.)

Reality Check

“You may have also heard of ‘experiments’ and ‘data’. We won’t worry about that here.”

Loss Landscape of Academia

It’s good to check every once in a while that you aren’t stuck in a local minimum.

Simple

This is how I feel about many computer science papers. Such simple ideas, but the notation and equations are so cryptic.

Difficulty Level

You would think that this should be painless. But no, despite our civilizational advances, this is still a pain.