Bad Moves

Prof David A Patterson’s lecture on bad career moves. Sage contrarian advice from a legend in our field. In order to get on the fast track to bad career, you can …

• Invent a field and Stick to it
• Let Complexity be Your Guide (Confuse Thine Enemies)
• Never be Proven Wrong
• Use the Computer Scientific Method
• Avoid Feedback
• Publishing Journal Papers is Technology Transfer
• Write Many (Bad) Papers by following 5 writing commandments
• Give Bad Talks by following 7 talk commandments

I love that he follows the section on bad career advice with a section on “alternatives to a bad career.” That’s my mission, to find an alternative to a bad career. This is a (little) bit more optimistic than the Matt Foley advice.