by jordicabot | Sep 21, 2020 | doing research, job, Research Rants
I hate working from home every single day. And I miss a lot seeing my colleagues at the office (ok, I especially miss our coffees together, great for team building!). We don’t need to be together to write a paper or a project report but I still prefer...
by jordicabot | Aug 17, 2020 | doing research, evaluating research, philosophy, Research Rants
Last month, I was discussing with Feli, from the budgeting team at my university, to upgrade the plan I had with WPEngine as we were paying overage charges due to excess visits. The plan was capped 100.000 thousand visits per month. And many months we were going over...
by jordicabot | Jun 6, 2020 | job, Research Rants, team
When I was a postdoc in Toronto, most of my fellow postdocs (not only from CS) wanted to become a PI (Principal Investigator). It seemed the logical next step in our careers. And it probably is. But I don’t think any of us understood how “happy” we...
by jordicabot | May 9, 2020 | philosophy, Research Rants
I’m getting more and more into Stoicism. It’s over 2000 years old but still in force (see modern stoicism). In short, Stoicism, “it’s a meditative technique that transforms negative emotions into a sense of calm and perspective” (Ryan Holiday)....
by jordicabot | May 2, 2019 | doing research, product development, Research Rants
Most research teams produce a considerable amount of research prototypes and proof-of-concept tools. Quality of these tools is usually low (they may lack documentation, tests, don’t scale,…) and most are abandoned after the paper for which the tool was...
by jordicabot | Feb 4, 2019 | marketing, Research Rants
I bet the time you spend promoting your research every week is close to zero. Once the paper is published and the presentation done (if any), you just move on to the next one. You just assume that the people in need of the solution you created in that paper will find...
