Zack's Research Journal

Research Taste Exercises

Based on Chris Olah's lovely post about exercises to improve research taste, here is a list of exercises I have collected to try to improve my own research taste as a budding researcher. I will add as I find new ones!

Exercise Source
Get a friend in your area to pick a random paper from your field that you haven't read and try to predict the reaction (citations, etc.) Colah post comments
Pay attention when other people try ideas you’ve had. How did the results compare with your expectations? Colah post
Write project proposals in short term & research plans in long term tweet