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A while ago, Brian Burg  commented on Twitter  that he would like to see more discussion of marketing in academia. I decided I'd rather...

A wise professor once told me to take advice with a grain of salt, as it is mostly highlights and wishful thinking. Structured procrastinat...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the "collaboration problem" that sparked a significant amount of discussion among my ...

Today I spoke with a Computer Science professor who is finishing a semester of teaching a notoriously challenging advanced undergraduate co...

Since Tuesday, I've been thinking about what we could be doing better--in terms of encouraging civil participation, in terms of satisf...

I encountered a pretty bad Dropbox bug today. I'm wondering if anybody else has encountered anything similar, and also wanted to share ...

I've been at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor for a little over a month now, and the students tell me we're ap...

Yesterday my friend Grzegorz asked me if I knew how to prevent promising students from becoming "brilliant jerks," and I opened u...

A question for all of you. -- from: Grzegorz Kossakowski to: Jean date: Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:51 AM subject: Correcting brillia...

I recently talked to an early PhD student trying to decide between two projects: one they were in love with, and one with a much longer lis...

It's my first semester being on the other side! Giving advice is so fun because it validates all of my life choices! I put together a l...

I recently had the following chat conversation with a Former Student about the possibility of doing a PhD in Computer Science*. FS: What...