Lessons from my PhD - Austin Z. Henley

Lessons I learned during my PhD that can be applied to virtually any job.

Lessons from my PhD - Austin Z. Henley Austin Z. Henley I build tools for people austin.henley@microsoft.com @austinzhenley github/AZHenley Home | Publications | Teaching | Blog Lessons from my PhD 12/27/2021 See the discussion of this post on Hacker News and Twitter . Most of what I learned during my PhD had nothing to do with my dissertation topic, grad school, or even computer science. These lessons are so ingrained into me now that I'm shocked when I find out that not everyone knows them! I think they can be applied to virtually any office job. I've written down a few of the lessons in hop

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