Some random things I found interesting…..

Some Notes on Research and Writing:

• Hal Varian on How To Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time.
• William Thomson’s Young Person’s Guide to Writing Economic Theory.
• Stephen Pinker on Why Academic Writing Stinks.
• A nice American Scientist article on the Science of Academic Writing.
• One and Two good articles on writing referee reports in TCS and Econ.
• You should learn Python, it’s awesome… some resources…
  • A short course on Python for Scientific Computing.
  • A good collection of resources for Reproducible Data Analysis in Jupyter.

Some Notes on Building and Being on a Good Team

• NYT Article on Building Good Teamwork.
• David Patterson on How to Build a Bad Team.

Interesting Thoughts on Authorship and Biblometrics:

• The Effects of Listing Authors in Alphabetical Order: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence.
• Mattern, A Biblometric Evaluation of Computer Science.

Random

• Office Buddy Haris Aziz’s Blog.
• My former Supervisor Toby Walsh’s Blog.