How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

28 points by rombr 4 hours ago

3 comments:

by zck an hour ago

As he's mentioned, he has given this talk a few times, aimed at different audiences. One version of the talk has its slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzis5MXW83vCdUdXYnFIVDVOSkE...

by dwroberts 27 minutes ago

> Successful projects go through an unglamorous hard phase.

> Design is more fun than making it work.

Great wisdom for any kind of project

by shoo an hour ago

thank you for posting a text version. to make the topic even more legible to prospective link clickers:

> How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Pre-PhD and Post-PhD (& How to Give a Bad Talk)

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