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　　《A PhD Is Not Enough》精选点评：

　　●Know the big picture to tell a good story

　　●后搬砖时代职业生存指南。如果你没有mentor，这本书可以算半个。不过我估计是没机会做postdoc和ap啦，所以也无所谓。

　　●Still have a long way to go

　　●我觉得career path也是导师要教的一部分啊

　　●写给naive博士生的学术圈生存指南

　　●非常实用。研究生博士后很现实的生存之道。

　　●书本身写得是不错的，但看完了感觉无比沉重

　　●不过，有实用性的科研生存手册，推荐给博士和博士后们．

　　●这本书说了怎么在科研界生存。不要放长线，要短线操作，逐渐锻炼自己的能力，让别人相信自己，投资自己。在演讲等方面积累自己的实力，要能够展示自己。时时想着怎么才能把自己卖出去。吸取别人失败的经验，让自己成长，而不是去触碰那些致命的错误！！

　　●感觉压力好大

　　《A PhD Is Not Enough》读后感(一)：很有趣的书，也有些很有用的建议

　　看完这本书，知道了科研之路其实还很长。而我还有很多需要准备。

　　除了论文和学术成果，还要懂得沟通和交流，懂得找好的导师咨询，懂得如何让自己的研究更有吸引力。

　　书中的很多观点的确很有用：

　　1. 发现研究的背景，很多时候我们做项目，做研究都是导师的决定，自己也没有细想就扎进去了，但是最后却发现应用的背景都没有理清楚。背景很重要，而且一定要在做项目之前就想好它。

　　2. 讲好自己的故事，将背景转化为技术问题，这个过程是故事的开端，将技术问题的分析和解决讲清楚，这是故事的中间，最后等到汇报解决方案的结果和性能比较时，自然就是结果了。呵呵，这个过程要是引人入胜，那么公众和赞助方自然更给力。

　　3. 发表论文要连续，不要等太久。我从没有想过这一点，但是现在发觉这确实是事实。连续的发表论文不仅更保险，而且对心理上也是一种鼓励和安慰，并且这样对自己也是一个不断的提高。

　　4. 学术职位要早考虑，是去企业还是去高校或是政府部门，差别还是很明显。高校更自由，但是企业更有效率，而政府部门则压力更大。

　　前途路漫漫，但是只要有方向，把握住，结果总是不错的。

　　《A PhD Is Not Enough》读后感(二)：想要生存下来，首先你得懂游戏规则

　　理想主义和实用主义往往不是那么冲突，就像仰望星空的时候也不妨碍你脚踏实地。作为一个社会底层受教育程度较高的一类人北美PhD，这本书虽然称不上警世恒言，但是至少在思维方式和行为方式上，对于摆脱too young, too simple的状态还是有着很大帮助的。

　　高中的大牛同学现在在S校物理PhD，某次吃饭聊起对物理的追求时也说，说到底，学术也不完全是一门追求真相的艺术，而更像是一个摸清规则的游戏。大学时候的学姐，在美国混了几年学术圈拿到绿卡，现在厌倦了去念法学院了准备当专利法律师了。闲来无事有时候跟老板扯淡，他常说到好的科研仅仅是给别人交流的资本，真正要想在学术圈混得如鱼得水，还得做很多socialize和marketing。

　　全书总结下来几点：

　　1. PhD期间尽量傍大款，就是功成名就的tenure的教授，这样你的文章别人会认为是你自己的贡献更大。如果是年轻的Assistant Prof，大家都默认成果是AP的。不过要是你跟的大牛总是神龙见首不见尾，对你也不管不问，发不出paper，毕业也成问题。

　　2. Postdoc职位，最好选择可以短时间出成果的不是特别大的project。要有自己独创的思路，避免沦为老板的写项目申请的廉价劳工（因为项目申请里是不会挂postdoc的名字的），避免沦为仪器修理工的角色，因为仪器修理工就像姑娘给你发的好人卡一样，一旦收了好人卡，就再也没希望翻身了。

　　3. 多跟实验室里的人搞好关系，跟老板搞好关系，跟系里的所有人搞好关系，尤其是大牛。最好能有个年老的大牛愿意做你的mentor，分享下人生经验并且说不定还能分享下他的人脉。对任何人nice，不要在学术圈树敌。想想我的AP老板都跟我说，他faculty meeting的时候非万不得已，常常“keep my mouth shut”，我还时不时地不知天高地厚地跟老板吐槽下xxx教授的授课很无趣。系里的退休返聘老大牛，等我生么时候搞出点名堂了，要去勾搭一下。

　　4. 找工作的时候，要体现你是一个成熟的科研工作者，既有一个具体的project可以立刻给学校带来funding，也有一个全局的打算可以源源不断地为学校带来funding。大概就跟找老公一样，既要有车有房，还要有一份靠谱的工作可以源源不断地换车换房。

　　5. 不管是做讲座还是写论文，不要拘泥于具体的细节，我老板也经常跟我讲要Tell A Story。在这方面我觉得纪录片视角和对话视角对书面表达很有帮助。就是把写作当成是用一个纪录片的镜头来记录自己，或者是跟一个同事朋友电话来介绍自己做了什么。

　　6. 去学校还是去research lab很大程度上取决于机遇。去学校评上终身教授之前的5年几乎要呕心沥血，做你同龄人两倍的工作量，拿你同龄人二分之一的工资(大概8w-10w/yr)，还要忍受本科生的骚扰，面临着养博士的压力。research lab起薪比较高，如果混的好若干年之后可以回大学直接tenure，或者在research lab进入管理层。

　　7.初入学术圈的新人要赶紧靠着publication续命，千万不要想着要攒满能量放大招，因为很可能在这之前，你已经被KO出竞技场了。

　　8. 如果熬过5年，评上了tenure，老婆还没跑，身体还没透支，那么你可以开始旱涝保收的幸福生活了。工资十几万到二十几万，取决你继续拉funding的能力。写教科书或者自己开公司赚外快，只要不影响一周两天的教书，基本也没人反对。系里一个老教授，每周就开着他的保时捷来学校两天，老婆比他小二十岁，真是人生赢家。对了，唯一不能做的事情就是性骚扰女学生，这个很可能使你丢掉工作。

　　好了，停止YY，还是快滚回去做实验吧。

　　《A PhD Is Not Enough》读后感(三)：牛B冲冲的科学家是怎样炼成的

　　一

　　Experience is the best teacher (but only when the experience isn't fatal.

　　It should be obvious that the problem with waiting for experience to dictate appropriate behaviors is that one is very likely to fail as a result of the bad experiences that are supposed to produce the appropriate feelings.

　　The result the author had hoped for in writing this book is that you will become more reflective about your career and will act in a way that is appropriate to being successful and productive

　　o matter how well you do what the book had told you, you will certainly still experience difficult times, have regrets about some of your choices, and possibly fail anyway. Nevertheless, your chances for having a scientific career will be greatly improved.

　　From my perspective, It is far better to learn from the bad eperiences of others than from your own.

　　This book is all about the bad experience you can learn from to avoid the " fatal experience"

　　I wish you every success：）

　　二

　　说实话，这书和我关系不大。因为自己从来没想过自己能读到Phd，更何况作者认为，phd还不够了。这里的不够有两层意思：1. 读到Phd并不能给了一个完美的学术生涯 2. 对于搞科研和以后在学术界混，PHD是必须的，但是还不够。

　　之后就是作者的一些指导和建议，他认为科研，学术和生活，社交，和financial well-being是可以实现平衡的，你并不一定要忙得要命，或者很穷，或者像个呆子那样整天做实验。The focus is on strategic thinking。

　　没错，一切的关键在于战略性思考。这也是贯穿全书的一个分析问题的思考过程。每一步都需要深思熟虑，做好明确的规划，同时考虑时机的把握，长期目标和短期目标的平衡，不要理想主义，要现实，别犯傻，不想没饭吃，就要平衡自己理想和屁股位置的关系。

　　三

　　这书不会教你怎样去拿Nobel prices（作者也想有人教他！），但是会让你对于如何在学术界混得不错会很有帮助。而其中很多的一些准则和技巧，对于职场，我想也一样适用。书上的思考和分析过程，很值得借鉴。

　　最后作者说，经验是最好的老师。但是有些错误是致命的。It is far better to learn from the bad eqeriences of others than from your own

　　有这么一句话，聪明人从犯错中学习。智者，从别人的错误中学习。

　　希望这本书，能让你学习到别人的失败经验，以后，自己不至于撞得头破血流，过一把成为智者的瘾：）

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　　y Hammer

　　Readingnote:

　　我的笔记好长，花了自己很多时间，也不知道有没人看，呵。但是有一个好处，就是我把这书所有想知道的东西都整理好，我以后都不用再看这本书了：）

　　1.导师“懒”真的伤不起。会误导很多学生

　　Many professional scientists believe that "good" students find their way on their own, while the remainder cannot be helped. This justifies neglect, and perhaps not incidentally, reduces work load

　　2.一离开学校，就要争分夺秒了！

　　Once you leave graduate school, the clock isTicking

　　3.找一个有经验的前辈咨询有必要的。不要害怕。每个人都喜欢给忠告

　　The best preparation you can make toward the goal of having a entific career is to find yourself a "research aunt or uncle,"someone with little or no authority over you, who hasenough experience to act as a sounding board and giver of accurate advice. Do not be shy about getting to know people outside your advisor's realm. The scientists at your lab will very likely cherish the human contact. They spend lots of time behind the closed doors of lab and office, and everybody likes to give advice.

　　4.没时间给你浪费，不想shi就做好准备

　　You have little time to waste, because it will not be long after you begin your postdoctoral work that you will be

　　ack on the job market.

　　The clock starts ticking when you get to your new location.

　　Whatever you do before you leave the nest of graduate school doesn't count, for all practical purposes

　　5,找工作的原则

　　Once you do take a postdoctoral position, the keys to success are 1) Finish something, and 2) make yourself known and useful.Finishingprojects and having a story to tell are essential

　　6.不要追求完美主义，现实点。能做多点就多点。简历好看。以后找工作也容易。

　　As a postdoc, under time pressure, you may have to sacrifice your desire for perfection, you may have to live with the fear that you haven't got everyhmg just right, in order to develop a story that you can use to sell yourself. This is not cynicism but realism, and is worth remembering you’re your entire career.

　　7.努力工作，没时间给你浪费！

　　Above all, during your postdoc years, work hard! You

　　have only a short time to prove yourself. Do not slough off

　　ow. There is no time to waste. Your postdoctoral years

　　represent the most intensely important period in determining

　　whether you will have a career.

　　8.面试准则，换位思考，说服人，你是有价值的。学术报告也是要源于这个原则，也是一个展现你自己的一个机会。

　　On a job interview trip, your task is to persuade a significant fraction of the professionals who see you that they would be excited to have you as a colleague. The seminar that you present is your best opportunity to convey the message that you are the person to hire. The same applies when you report on your progress after a year or two in a new position. The colleagues who know you best may already think very highly of you. But they have only a few "votes." By giving a good seminar you can add to the base of support that you will need to be kept on or promoted. Finally, remember that few professional scientists have much time for reading. The way that they learn of new and interesting work, nowadays, is by going to meetings and listening to seminars. If you present your work well in

　　these venues you will be much better able to attract a following. Having a following is an excellent form of job security.

　　9.永远不要高估你的观众。你要讲一些对他们重要的东西，并且不用介意你讲的他们已经知道，因为这会让他们感觉良好

　　A fundamental principle, in preparing a talk, is never overestimate your audience They want you to say

　　what is important in the area of interest, particularly if

　　what is important happens to be their own work! They

　　don't mind hearing things they already understand-it

　　makes folks feel good to understand something.

　　10.学术报告的准则：(也适用于其他演讲）

　　1. Your seminar is a performance. It needs to be carefully

　　lanned and thoroughly rehearsed.

　　2. Present yourself confidently. Act as though you have

　　enjoyed doing your research and that your results are exciting

　　to you.

　　3. Respect your audience. They are spending an hour to

　　hear you. They want to understand what you have to say,

　　even if your specialty is not theirs. They do not want to be

　　quot;snowed," nor do they want to be treated as "experts" in a

　　field where they really are not.

　　4. Do not waste your time with filler. Make sure each

　　lide pushes your story forward. If your talk is a bit too

　　hort, no one will object.

　　5. Make your visual aids pleasing to the eye without too

　　much of a Madison Avenue look.

　　Thanks for your attention!

　　11.刚开始的时候，你真的各种苦逼，所以接下来，你一定要让自己得到尽可能多的认可，展现自己的实力

　　As a beginning scientist, not only are your hours long and your pay low, but your job security is anything but assured. To succeed, you

　　must make your talents well known and widely appreciated.

　　12.写作很重要。别啰嗦。别装逼。用简洁直接的语言。（几乎所有教写作的书都这么说的了）

　　it is all too easy to write an accurate deｓｃｒｉｐｔion of your work that attracts no attention and that adds little to your scientific

　　reputation, even when your results are significant. Learning

　　to write articles that people will read and remember will make you a more effective scientist. It will also enhance your chances for survival as a researcher.

　　This is important, not only to provide your readers with a way of understanding your area of research, but also because your scientific colleagues are very eager to get credit for their

　　achievements. (This is not just vanity. Scientists' careers are built on the perceived importance or usefulness of their search results.) You have much to gain and little to lose by scrupulously citing your competitors' work

　　Journals seemed to require writing papers in the passive mood, as in "the data were obtained using the following novel method" rather than "I developed the following novel method to obtain the data." More recently, it has become possible to drop the phoniness of this style and to reveal in your papers that you actually did the work that

　　you are reporting. I greatly prefer the more straightforward style and recommend that you use it.

　　13.老兄，现实点。别太理想主义。你理想再崇高，你还是要吃饭。你也想有时间陪陪家人，溜溜狗，和朋友吃一顿，度度假，有时间看本小说吧？

　　As a scientist, your goals are to make exciting discoveries,

　　to change the way your colleagues and maybe even the

　　ublic-at-large view the world, and generally to improve

　　eople's lives. However, need I remind you, you will remain

　　a human being, with human needs, even while you

　　are pushing back the frontiers of ignorance. No matter

　　how romantically you view your role in research, you will

　　ot be happy without a secure, well-paid job. You will

　　want help in accomplishing your research goals and recognition

　　for your achievements. You will probably want to see your family on a regular basis, and more generally, to have enough free time to engage in activities outside your

　　rofessional life.

　　Economic conditions may limit your choices, but if you

　　are fortunate enough to have more than one job possibility,

　　this exercise will save you considerable stress. It may

　　have a significant effect on your financial well-being. It

　　may save your marriage. I harbor a secret hope: If enough

　　of you start to act rationally, the system may eventually be

　　rationalized

　　14.这个也很现实。不是打击你，你要想想5年后，当你同学和朋友，工资，职位，甚至可支配的时间都远远超过你，你还是那个熊样，你那时就只能酸葡萄：我的工作比他们快乐。。。

　　There are pleasures to working as an assistant professor.

　　Teaching and interacting with students can be exciting.

　　The university environment is in itself very stimulating.

　　There are certainly more hn& of people with more &-

　　verse interests than in any industrial lab. You do get respect

　　from the community. On the other hand, the price of

　　eing an assistant professor is much too high. The hours

　　are long, the pay is terrible, and the job security is bad. After

　　your years of study for a Ph.D. and further years as a

　　ostdoctoral apprentice, you will probably be about thirty

　　years old. You'll probably be starting a family. Your former

　　colleagues who went to engineering or business school

　　will be making their way in the world, earning good salaries,

　　and having time to participate in activities outside

　　their jobs

　　15.去大的实验室的好处，可能也是去大公司的好处。好，毕业后我要去大公司！^_^

　　Obviously, if you work in a managed lab, you need to have some feeling that you will not be subject to a tooheavy hand. A bigger lab, for example, will provide you more freedom to correct a bad situation than a smaller one. At a large lab, if you just can't get along with your supervisor, there may be several other groups who would be happy to benefit from your wisdom and whose supervisors

　　would be easier to deal with. As your reputation grows, of course, your management will look to you for new ideas and will be less likely to suggest that you change directions. In a sense, this is another aspect of the reward system in a managed environment. The more credibly you play the role of a scientific leader, the more freedom you will have to follow your own research ideas. This

　　is a real incentive, I can assure you.

　　Circumstances, economic, family, or other, may prevent

　　you from following the optimal career trajectory. But at

　　least I hope you will now go into the job market with a

　　clear idea of how you would like to arrange your career

　　and why.

　　16.面试前做好准备总是好的。面试后的问问题环节其实是你展示你自己和给人留下印象的一个机会，好好把握吧。

　　The best preparation for a job interview, just as in the

　　case of exams in school, is to work out in advance what

　　questions are likely to be asked and to have answers for

　　them.

　　Few days after your personal interviews are done and

　　you have gone home, staffers that you visited will be trying

　　to remember what you said in order to write up impressions

　　of your performance. If you were able to ask intelligent and pointed questions about various staff members' work, and to explain how your research will complement their own, their memories will be excellent, and it will be easy for them to write glowing reviews. If you

　　hadn't a clue what is going on in their labs, and expressed no understanding of how your work might help them achieve their goals, their memories will need refreshing, or perhaps they will be wondering whether you have the desire and/or the ability to make a serious contribution.

　　Whatever thinking you have done in advance and written preparation you have made will lighten your burdens and may keep you out of the panic mode.

　　17.在收到几个offer之后，选择的原则是，一切是你自己为中心！！拒绝的时候，不需要有内疚感，别拿自己的幸福开玩笑！

　　It is not infrequent that an institution offering you a position

　　will want an acceptance or rejection within some

　　time limit, for example so that it can make a timely offer,

　　or send a rejection letter to a runner-up for the job. This

　　may put you under considerable pressure, if other places

　　where you have interviewed are moving too slowly. If you

　　are not prepared to answer yes or no as a deadline approaches,

　　you should ask for more time. If the extra time is

　　ot accorded, in deciding how to respond you should

　　keep in mind that it is your life and your happiness that

　　are paramount. If you are unwilling to let go of offer number

　　one while waiting to hear from institution number two,

　　it might be reasonable to accept the first offer. If the later

　　offer is better, you can take it and apologize to the first offerers

　　for changing your decision to accept. You will not

　　make friends by withdrawing your acceptance, and breaking

　　a promise is certainly not something you should do

　　lightly or often. Nevertheless, your life comes first. If an institution

　　quot;plays rough" by pressuring you for a decision, it

　　hould be prepared to accept the fruits of its tactics. It has

　　robably experienced such consequences before.

　　18.如果不是不必要，谦虚一点总是好的

　　Without being unnecessarily modest, understatement is likely to win you more respect than overstatement of your possibilities

　　19、全书重点，战略性思考。长期目标和短期目标的平衡。有些人就是喜欢看数字，看证书，你迎合他们其实并不是坏事，可能会给你机会。你也可以继续做自己的长期目标。关键在于时机的把握，和知道什么时候做什么重要。

　　There are several strategies for establishing a record of accomplishment that will help make you more salable or will enhance your chances of winning promotion to a "continuing" scientific job. The most obvious is to aim at an important long-term goal by planning your work as a sequence of short-term projects

　　If you have pub- lished twice as many articles, this "objective measure" of their impact will be roughly twice as great. You may find this idea crass. I do. But it is safe to assume that there will be bean-counters among those who determine your fu- ture, and it certainly does you no harm to please them.

　　20. 追随潮流之前的思考

　　efore moving into a fashionable field, you must ask yourself whether you have a realistic chance of emerging from the mob as someone who has made an important advance. If the problem is solved and this hot area is the only one you know well, how long will it take you to establish yourself in another one？ Are your ideas sufficiently different from others' that you can hope to beat the competition to the answer？

　　A less risky course is to try to lead rather than to follow fashion. This mode is not for everyone-but my style is to select a problem of obvious importance, one that is recog- nized as difficult because its solution will involve a great deal of work. By investing my labor in such a problem, I stake it out as mine. My peers have no trouble distinguish- ing my contributions from those of others working in the same area. I have few if any competitors. No one wants to work so hard

　　关于这段很大启发，

　　亚马逊创始人杰夫贝佐斯说过，

　　追随潮流是很难的，更好的方式是投身于自己真正热爱的事业当中，然后等待。等待潮流来追随你。

　　找到自己真正热爱的东西，然后为之奋斗一辈子，这是多么幸运并且幸福的事：）