I recently saw a tweet that said something along the lines of “it ticks me off that high schools don’t prepare kids for schools like CalArts.” This idea kind of bugs me, because as someone who graduated from a magnet arts high school with a selective application process,

Ever since I decided to get myself involved in academic research two years ago, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the habits and behaviours of the different researchers I’ve interacted with. Most researchers are crazy, but they’re crazy in different ways because their actions are driven by different forces.

Understanding your particular brand of influences and craziness as a researcher and comparing it with those of others may help you to understand why your collaborations with some researchers work very well and why others drive you insane. Therefore, I hereby present to you the “Researcher Alignment Matrix”.

These are some things I’ve learned, or at the very least thought about, over the last few years. Hopefully some of these ideas are useful to you as well.

I am still trying to get rid of my backlog of links I wanted to post about, so please bear with me.

Hi! Here is a linkdump. I told myself I would post these with really minimal context because I am too busy to summarize these things and have a really giant backlog of links I’ve been wanting to post, but uh, the writer in me won out and I failed. Some of these have way more description than others. But I do also have quotes I’ve pulled for some of them, so maybe that will help make this post more interesting.