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Collection of how-to guides

Research soft skills
- How to make research slides by James Chua and John Hughes
- How to manage up by Henry Sleight
- How to ML series by Tim rocktaschel and Jakob Foerster
Procedural expertise
- "How to become an expert at a thing" by Karpathy
- Mastery, by Robert Greene
Working sustainably
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- Feel-good Productivity by Ali Abdaal

Some other guides I'd be interested in

How to write a survey / position paper
"How to think better" - the Sequences probably do this, but I'd like to read a highly distilled 80/20 version of the Sequences

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A few other research guides: * Tips for Empirical Alignment Research by Ethan Perez * Advice for Authors by Jacob Steinhardt * How to Write ML Papers by Sebastian Farquhar