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MVP – Minimum viable post

by jordicabot | Mar 21, 2022 | Research Rants, stories entrepreneur, writing

Paraphrasing Reid Hoffman famous saying: “You may have heard me say: If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late”, I’m confident to say: If you’re not ashamed of your blog post, you...

Don’t patch your research by being a prose artist

by jordicabot | May 27, 2016 | Research Rants, writing

I was listening on Tim Ferriss podcast this interview with best-seller writer Sebastian Junger when one of the things Sebastian said really ressonate with me. They were talking about writer’s block when Sebastian said: You never want to solve a research problem...
Write down 10 new research ideas every day

Write down 10 new research ideas every day

by jordicabot | Jan 11, 2016 | organizing, Research Rants, tools, writing

James Altucher  proposes to come up and write down ten ideas a day, no matter what as part of your “daily practice” And he says there are three reasons to do this: Some of those ideas may actually be good. But don’t obsess with this. You’re  just...
A magician’s writing advice for novice researchers

A magician’s writing advice for novice researchers

by jordicabot | Dec 7, 2015 | Research Rants, writing

Direclty from the James Altucher show, the magician Penn Jillette gives an invaluable advice for aspiring writers, which also applies to any researcher (in case you just joined the research community, you’ll soon notice most of what we do is writing: papers,...

Why we didn’t self-publish our (teaching) book

by jordicabot | Nov 14, 2012 | publishing, Research Rants, teaching, writing

When I complained about the economics of the book business (see Selling my own book: my royalties are less than what I get with the Amazon Affiliate program ) the most common comment I got that we should have self-published our book instead of using in a well-known...
Spicing up the signing of scientific papers

Spicing up the signing of scientific papers

by jordicabot | Sep 27, 2012 | publishing, Research Rants, writing

What does a camera has to do with this? And who is the author of this blog post? Well, just keep reading and you’ll understand. If you have developed an academic career, you have probably heard that signing of research papers is usually a controversial issue....
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