Pithy advice collected in grad school

• touch each piece of paper (or each email) once and only once
• remembering what tool you need > remembering how to use it
• biggest predictor of grad school success: ability to distinguish between problems you can solve & problems you need help solving
• content, form, and language (should) always comprise a unified whole
• talk about your research before writing about it
• be the glue; also, be the "you were saying?" person
• energy is a feedback loop, not a finite resource