- A Survival Guide to a PhD, Andrej Karpathy
- Doing Well in Your Courses, Andrej Karpathy
- Tips for Writing Technical Papers, Jennifer Widom Stanford
- CS PhD --help greatest collection of PhD resources, CMU
- Writing Reviews for Systems Conferences, Timothy Roscoe ETH Zurich
- How to Read a Paper, UWaterloo
- A PhD in Numbers, David Stutz
- Lord of the Rings: An Allegory of the PhD?
- The Bitter Lesson, Rich Sutton
- You and Your Research, Richard Hamming Bell Labs
- An Opinionated Guide to ML Research, John Schulman
- Principles of Effective Research, Michael Nielsen
- Mathematical Writing, Donald Knuth
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, R. Hamming
You can also read my blog about Choosing between a PhD in CS and Industry