communication

The ability to communicate why you are doing what you are doing cannot be undervalued. Remember -- the point of writing a paper is do to this, however there are other methods such as talks, blog posts, tutorials, and other means!

A great initial resource is Patrick Winston's Make It Clear book.

Websites

It is important to create and maintain a website of your project -- this is the primary way the world will learn about what you are doing! It is very saddening to learn about a cool piece of research, search for the researcher's website, and come up empty.

• Create a github organization for your project. Let's say it's called yourproject
• Create repo called yourproject.github.io in your organization.
• Copy over and edit the example website scaffolding where all you need to do is edit markdown documents and run a build script to create your site pages
• See github's pages instructions for more details

Writing

• UChicago's Lecture on The Craft of Writing Effectively. tldr: the goal of writing is not to share your ideas, but to change the reader's ideas.
• Cormac McCarthy's notes on scientific writing
• Renee Miller's tips
• Jennifer Widom's tips
• Dave Patterson's Tips
• Eugene's notes on writing

Writing Grants

From Parker Derrington

• Misshapen grants
• Reshape your grant
• Does the grant stand on its own?
• The perfect intro
• PIPPIN sentences
• Target readers
• Use the same words

Talks

• Guidelines I follow when giving talks by Amelia McNamara
• Patterson's How to Give a Bad Talk
• Iteratively remove clutter from a slide

Marketing

TBD