- ☀️Daily Log:
- How to (seriously) read a scientific paper #guide #academic
- Asked a dozen scientists to give advice
- Outside-in
- Read the abstract, skim intro, look at figures, and try to identify the key figures and understand them completely, then read conclusion
- Then once you have the questions that need clarifying, go back and rad the technical details
- Start-and-end
- Read the abstract and conclusion, see how the goals set out in abstract was reached
- Then read the article from beginning to end to get the flow
- Skim-then-detail
- Skim to see if its relevant
- Also check references for interesting leads
- Active writer
- Write down specific quotes in another file with comments
- Read review papers for a general overview of the field
- Retrospective::
- One week ago: [[October 28th, 2020]]
- One month ago: [[October 4th, 2020]]
- One quarter ago: [[August 4th, 2020]]
- One year ago: [[November 4th, 2019]]
- Daily Stoic::
- Don’t label change as good or bad, because it leads to you trying to fight with external events. They just are.