Jessica McCrory Calarco, A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
Robert Peters, Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
Fabio Rojas, Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure
Gary King, So You're a Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This
Paul Musgrave, Being a Professor is a Job
Michael Munger, IHS essays and videos Kosmos podcasts on academic success
Michael Munger, Scholars Talk Writing
Erin Ackerman, "Analyze This": Writing in the Social Sciences
Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work
Alvaro de Menard, What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
Justin Grimmer, Barry Weingast, and Ken Schultz, Advice to PhD Students Going on the Academic Job Market
Arthur Spirling, Job Talks: A Talk
Emily Hanford, Don't Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn
Tom Carsey, What Makes for a Good Research Presentation
Phil Agre, Networking on the Network
Richard Hamming, You and Your Research
Phil Arena, Signaling Advice For Grad Students
Cal Newport, Some Thoughts on Grad School
Don Davis, Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start?
Ira Glass on the gap between your taste and your work and how to close it and Todd Henry on developing your creative voice
Journal editors on what makes a good review
Chris Blattman, How to get a PhD *and* save the world
Paul Edwards, How to Give an Academic Talk
Ezra W. Zuckerman, Tips to Article-Writers
Philip J. Guo, The Ph.D. Grind: A Ph.D. Student Memoir
Karen Kelsky, Should I Do an Edited Collection?
Hugo Lindgren, Be Wrong as Fast as You Can
Sam Altman, Productivity
Eric Chown, Giving Computer Science Students Freedom
Eve Ewing, How to write a personal statement for graduate school
Kieran Healy on nuance traps in theories of social behavior
Tyler Cowen on the relative importance of incentives vs. where we are on the innovation curve
David Karpf, The Dissertation as Teacher
Robert J. Stenberg, Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career
Andrew Oswald, Things I would have found it useful to have been told when I was a young researcher
Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Six Guidelines for Interesting Research
Cosma R. Shalizi, On Academic Talks: Memory and Fear
Radhika Nagpal, The-Awesomest-7-Year-Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty-life
Nathan M. Jensen, My paper's journey through the review process
Gabriel Rossman on how we broke peer review and how to fix it
Chris Blattman, Frequently asked questions on PhD applications
Mark Cuban, Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort
Kaitlin Gallagher, Fixed vs Growth Mindsets
Chris Blattman, Advice for new Assistant Professors
Jesse Shapiro, How to Give an Applied Micro Talk
John Patty, The Math of Getting a Job in Political Science
Marc F. Bellemare, How to Publish in Academic Journals
Brian McGill, William Shockley on what makes a person who publishes a lot of papers
Elliot T. Berkman, Advice for Grad Students (and Senior Faculty)
Scott Adams, Passion is overrated and goals are for losers
Jonathan Berk, Campbell R. Harvey, and David A. Hirshleifer, Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives
Leonard Mlodinow on myths about where scientific discoveries come from
Ezra Klein's advice to young journalists (much applies to aspiring academics)
Avoiding gender bias in reference writing
Chris Jones, Nine Rules for Creative Work
Stephen M. Walt, How to Get Tenure
Scott Alexander, Nonfiction Writing Advice
Andrew Little, Three Templates for Introductions to Political Science Articles
Johannes Haushofer, CV of Failures
Daniel McCormack on why you shouldn't ask a professor whether you should pursue a Ph.D.
Paul N. Edwards, How to Give an Academic Talk
Jean Yang, The Genius Fallacy
Brett Mensh and Konrad Kording, Ten simple rules for structuring papers
Matt Might, 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.
David Evans, How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics
Gary King, Dissertation Advice
Amy Catalinac, Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Advancement in Political Science
Jacquelyn Pless, 12 Job Market "Vitals"
Philip Guo, A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications
Paul Niehaus, Doing research
Paul Graham, Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Ben Olken, My Epic Failures
Josh Kertzer, Five things I wish I knew over the past decade
Benjamin Lauderdale, Things that I have learned by being a journal editor
John Lofland, How to Make Out in Graduate Sociology
Jacob Steinhardt, Research as a Stochastic Decision Process
Arthur Spirling, Rejection
Arthur Spirling, On Being a (Successful) Graduate Student
Eric Zwick, The 12 Step Program for Grad School and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market