Advice for prospective students

Career

• Richard Hamming. You and Your Research.
• Paul Graham. How to Do Great Work.
• David Patterson. How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Pre-PhD and Post-PhD (& How to Give a Bad Talk).

Reading

• S. Keshav. How to Read a Paper.

Writing

• Simon Peyton Jones. How to write a great research paper.
• William Strunk, Jr. The Elements of Style.
• CIA. Analytic Thinking and Presentation for Intelligence Producers.

Speaking

• Leslie Lamport. How to Present a Paper.
• Simon Peyton Jones, John Launchbury, John Hughes. How to give a great research talk.
• Patrick Winston. How to Speak.