Pencil Problems
Conversations on getting started, and finishing.
Displaying 2 items of Pencil Problems with the tag "phd".
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Episode 15: Intellectual Summer Camp
January 12th, 2018 | 1 hr 51 mins
academics, computer science, dgp, grad school, masters, phd, research, tag lab, trump, university of toronto
Kent and Nick get their first listener feedback, they talk about their time at The DGP, why grad school is like intellectual summer camp, advice for people thinking about grad school, academic politics, doing research, intellectual freedom and end with a healthy dose of Donald Trump.
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Episode 3: Searching for breadth vs. depth
October 4th, 2017 | 1 hr 44 mins
adwords, book agents, breadth, depth, grad school, keto, masters, phd, product management, programming, u of t
Nick and Kent talk about bluetooth headsets, breadth vs. depth, the problem with drop shippers, how grad school is basically paid summer camp, and how Nick is looking for an agent.