How to do research at the MIT AI Lab (1988) [pdf]

Well this is an easy paper to summarize: Be good at everything , read everything, talk to everybody in the field, don't ever sleep, and be able to dilate time to fit everything in!

I skimmed through it, and most of the advice sounds pretty solid. However, I suspect that following all this advice at once is not humanly possible (or at the very least, leaves you little time for anything else in your life). I did like the part about the 'cool people' secret paper club.

I find it interesting that this is published on a University of Massachusetts website rather than an MIT website.<p>I also think a hefty dose of this paper could apply to grad school in most fields at many top schools.

are we going to get pursued legally if we share this document?