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1/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research, Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 7 March 1986…

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It is the argument for why a 40-week plan aimed at one thesis beats 40 weeks of interesting side quests — the exact failure mode your ADHD brain is best at

Read exactly: The passage on "important problems" (why most scientists never work on one) and the passage on open door vs closed door

Produce: 5 lines in notes/craft/W00.md: the one important problem you are choosing, and the two you are refusing

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2/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

Uri Alon, "How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem", Molecular Cell 35(6):726-728, 2009. DOI 10.…

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You will reuse that chart in week 21 to scope Paper 3 with a partner. Learn it now, cheaply

Read exactly: Whole paper, 2 pages — especially the feasibility × interest chart

Produce: Place FermLit on the feasibility/interest chart, one paragraph, into notes/craft/W00.md

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3/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

Wilson G. et al., "Good enough practices in scientific computing", PLOS Computational Biology 13…

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Justifies, in one sitting, every folder you create today (data/raw read-only and never committed, reports/figures regenerated)

Read exactly: Sections "Data management" and "Project organization" only

Produce: Copy the two directory checklists into the README skeletons of batchlens and fermlit

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8/15 Watch 18 min W00 Sunday Craft

Barbara Oakley · "Learning how to learn"

Sunday, before writing post 0 · Sunday, before writing post 0

Produce: One line in notes/craft/W00.md: which ritual in Part 0.3 is your diffuse-mode slot

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9/15 Watch 60 min W00 Sunday Craft

Richard Hamming · "You and Your Research"

Sunday, before writing post 0 · after Barbara Oakley · "Learning how to learn" · Only if you prefer voice to text — it replaces R1, it does not add to it. Play at 1.25× while packing the cockpit

Produce: Same output as R1

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10/15 Watch 40 min W00 Craft

Learning How to Learn

Any block this week · Optional substitute for V1 if you want the full treatment

Produce: Nothing. Do not enrol in the whole course

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11/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

The Turing Way handbook

Your week-4 DOI release and week-36 JOSS submission are graded against exactly these habits

Read exactly: "Guide for Reproducible Research" → the overview chapter only; browse the table of contents

Produce: Two checklists saved to PARKING.md, not acted on yet

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