• Assess potential investments in your scientific career

    How can you assess potential investments in your scientific career like professional coaching or online courses? Such investments could catapult you forward in your career leading to huge benefits like pay raises, promotions, or more interesting projects. Or they could be a huge waste of money. To make the right decisions you need an analytical…

  • Scientist Deus: Plan Your Career as a Scientist in the Age of AI

    How can you plan your career as a scientist while technology is changing what it means to be a scientist? What will scientists even do in the future? As the lines between technology and biology blur, computers will undoubtedly relieve scientists of some of their duties. Will you be empowered by sophisticated artificial intelligences or…

  • As a scientist, should I get an MBA?

    As a scientist, should you get an MBA degree? The answer will be different for every individual scientist. It will even be different at different points in a single scientist’s career. Nevertheless, there are some common pros and cons to consider. This post isn’t meant to convince you one way or the other; rather, it…

  • Think Less, Act More: Boost Your Productivity as a Scientist

    Think less, act more is a recipe for success in the world of science. Action is valued more than thought. If you pause and consider it, this is incredibly obvious. No one was ever promoted, published, or otherwise rewarded for simply thinking. Rather, they had to experiment, write, meet, present, or take some other kind…

  • You need your very own Circle of Scientists

    Introduction As a scientist, you need a team of independent advisors—a community of scientists—to help you navigate a complex professional landscape. Let me explain why and propose a solution.  You possess the skills to do or learn to do almost anything, and that predisposition towards independence and self-determination can be detrimental to your career. Our…

  • Scientists should learn from Jeff Bezos

    To create truly transformative impact in the world, a scientist must systematically innovate over decades in areas overlooked by others. How can you model yourself after this ideal? You could study Nobel Prize winners, but you’ll risk getting stuck in the scientific details and miss the general themes. Better to examine a non-scientist and capture…