You're a new assistant professor? Not quite on top of it yet? Here are some books etc. that may help: Got a grand plan, research-wise? Thought through all the angles? How to have a Bad Career in Research/Academia, David Patterson, 1994. (35 slides, on-line, author is a computer scientist) Advice to a Young Scientist. P. B. Medwar. Basic Books, 1979. 0-465-00092-4. (106 pages. medicine.) A Ph.D. is