1. Online apps and the cloud beat the desktop and hard drive.

2. Collaborate on documents, don’t email them.

3. Collaboration is the new productivity.

4. People don’t have to be in an office.

5. Archive, don’t file.

6. Small teams are better than large teams.

7. Communication is a stream.

8. Fewer tasks are better than many.

9. Meeting (usually) suck.

10. Open-source is better than closed.

11. Rest is as important as work.

12. Focus, don’t crank.

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• Rule 1: Read many papers, and learn from both the good and the bad work of others.
• Rule 2: The more objective you can be about your work, the better that work will ultimately become.   
• Rule 3: Good editors and reviewers will be objective about your work.  
• Rule 4: If you do not write well in the English language, take lessons early; it will be invaluable later.  publish since they require extensive copyediting.  
• Rule 5: Learn to live with rejection.   
• Rule 6: The ingredients of good science are obvious
• Rule 7: Start writing the paper the day you have the idea of what questions to pursue.  
• Rule 8: Become a reviewer early in your career.    
• Rule 9: Decide early on where to try to publish your paper.  
• Rule 10: Quality is everything.

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