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Michael Nielsen: Principles of Effective Research: Part VII
Didier reminded me to check Nielsen’s last post on Principles of Effective Research. I take a quote out of it…
The foundation is a plan for the development of research strengths. What are you interested in? Given your interests, what are you going to try to learn? The plan needs to be driven by your research goals, but should balance short-term and long-term considerations. Some time should be spent on things that appear very likely to lead to short-term research payoff. Equally well, some time needs to be allocated to the development of strengths that may not have much immediate pay-off, but over the longer-term will have a considerable payoff.
This is a refreshing view.