“I want to be a C. scientist” That’s what I told my brother, with an impish grin. He was visiting Bombay from New York, circa 1997, during a break from his studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He was pursuing a degree in Computer Science. He asked me what I wanted to be when […]
Tag: writing
The Art of Rebutting
This is a post on how to rebut reviews. Specifically, CHI reviews. The ideas presented here probably apply to rebuttals more broadly, but much of what I’m going to speak about in this post is specific to CHI. Okay, so the long, long — so long — wait is over and you have your CHI […]
Lessons Learned From Proposing My Thesis: Writing
Once you’ve got your committee sorted, it’s time to get to work. You’ll need to write up a document and then present it to your committee. But, you already know that. Really, the first step is to discuss your plans with your committee. I’m going to assume you’ve done that already because I’m probably not […]
5 Ph.D. Survival Tips
I recently had to give a short presentation on “survival tips” as a Ph.D. student [1]. I thought I’d summarize that presentation in written form, too. Now, there’s a lot of material out there on how to succeed as an academic and as a professional. This post is going to be a rehashing of those […]
The Day You Became An Academic Writer
I went from being a good writer to being an academic writer after five years of grad school. I couldn’t believe how convoluted it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste half of your life in academia. Academic writing is about self-aggrandizing and duplicity. The main technique is […]
Two Months of Blogging: Front Page of Hacker News and Money In The Bank
I’ve been blogging for about 2 months now. In that time, I have written 13 publicly accessible posts and have grown a success spiral from writing for 1 minute a day to writing for 15 minutes a day [1]. In practice, I actually wrote between 20-30 minutes per day, on average. Overall, running Make Write Learn has been a positive […]
One Month of Blogging: Writing, Passive Income, and Audience Building
I’ve been blogging for about a month now, and if I had to summarize: It’s been great. In my original post, I mentioned a few reasons why I started this blog. For those not inclined to read that post, here’s a summary: I want to write more, and not necessarily for any specific goal. I want to explore passive […]