A student greeted members of her PhD defense committee via an email, and got scorched by one of the examiners for trying to schedule her own oral defense, using a “buddy” tone (including the use of emojis), sending from a non-school email account, and not addressing the examiner with a professor salute.
I like to tell this student that (1) a person is measured by the size of things that matter to him/her, (2) do not become such a person in the future.
There are these tourists who just want to visit as many places as possible to take (or even fake) photos without spending enough time experiencing the local life and culture with sufficient depth.
Researchers who abuse authorships are like such tourists.
They pretend having all the fun without actual experiencing much.
Life is a deep journey, and genuine experience is what matters the most.
A few days ago I read an article about an open-source ventilator that can be built with $400 in readily-available parts.
Today I saw a Facebook post discussing an article titled “Do top conferences contain well cited papers or junk?”.
Our impact is measured more about what we do for others (e.g., solving a social issue, curing a disease, saving the environment) than for ourselves (e.g., ego or career).
I would care much more about developing useful products or services than counting the number of papers or citations.
It takes intelligent and independent minds to desire what are really wanted.
Concrete numbers and data can help rational discussion of issues, including the trade-off between lives and jobs in the current lock-down situation.
An acquaintance, whom I saw in conferences sometimes but have no professional or personal relationships otherwise, sent me a bunch of inquiries recently:
Feb 12 email: When can we chat one of these days?
Feb 13 email: Are you around? Let me know when we can schedule a chat.
Mar 31 LinkedIn message: Hey man, can we chat one of these days? I sent you a couple e-mails and got no luck.
April 1 email: [ask a superficial technical question apparently to trigger my response]
If you were in my position, would you reply?
The only reason I can think of is when I have the time and curiosity to figure out what is wrong with this person.
(I investigated a bit and found other red flags, such as disappearing Facebook profile, near-zero research outputs in the last 2 years, etc.)
This is the best time to be an Asian American.
Half a century before, it was better to be an American.
Half a century after, it would better to be an Asian.
Both this NPR hidden brain podcast on the influence you have and this book on confessions of a sociopath point to the interesting aspects on how we know (and don’t know) about the psychological influences we can have on other people.
I usually found patent disclosure meetings a bit tedious. But the (remote) one held yesterday afternoon with two patent attorneys on a single-authored patent felt quite reassuring. During upheavals, routines can calm.
The best part about attending a top school is not (just) the education, research, and networking, but the constant reminder to be humble and avoid underachieving for the rest of my life.
https://twitter.com/liyiwei/status/1240321335110164480
the official ACM announcement https://t.co/EfWw8qy0D2
— Li-Yi Wei (@liyiwei) March 18, 2020
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