From most recent to oldest, by category.
Nice Reads
Advices for Young People
- Doing well in your courses
- If you have multiple interests, do not waste the next 2-3 years
- The days are long but the decades are short
- The Most Important Thing I Learned in My 20’s
- Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career
- How to pick a career that actually fits you?
- But Will It Make You Happy?
- You are not behind
- A Protocol for Dying
- Life is Short
- Your Life in Weeks
Engineering & Science
- No Good Engineer is Arrogant
- How to move fast when building for the physical world
- Prototyping Tips
- Hobby CNC machining and resin casting
- Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury?
- There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom
- Cargo Cult Science, Richard Feynman
- If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right
- Why aren’t we getting richer? The scarring tissue theory
- Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From
- How to be more productive without forcing yourself
- A day at the park
- Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
- What is Money, Anyway?
Software Tips
Here are some software that I use (and recommend):
- Mendeley to organize my research papers and references,
- GitHub for developing my work and collaborating,
- Syncthing to synchronize my large files,
- Vim for programming and editing text,
- LaTeX and Overleaf to write papers, thesis etc.,
- FEMM, ANSYS Maxwell, Comsol for electromagnetic FEA.
If you’re looking for more tips visit my blog (sorry, only in Turkish): Asu’ya Tuyolar
Useful Links
LaTeX / Collaborative Writing
- Overleaf (LaTeX)
- Mathpix (to extract LaTeX equations from PDFs)
- Scholarly Markdown
Presentations
Nice Plots
- Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
- Making Pretty Graphs(Matlab)
- Notes for producing clean plots in Matlab for LaTeX
- Python ToyPlots
- Graphing for Science and Engineering
Open Source
Free Online Courses
Academic Productivity
- How to study?
- A Survival Guide to a PhD
- Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
- Every productivity thought I’ve ever had
- Academic Assholes
- 9 Useless PhD Transferable Skills In An Industry Job
Writing Papers
- Purdue Online Writing Lab
- How to write a great science paper?
- Write a good paper
- How to write a paper
- How NOT to write a paper?
- Writing Advice for Students
- Reading for graduate students
- How to write good abstracts?
- Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
- İyi bir bilimsel makale için öneriler
- 3 shell scripts to improve your writing