• 'On Education' by Albert Einstein pdf

• On 'The Value of Science' by Richard Feynman.

• 'You and your research' by Richard Hamming.

• 'Advice to a Young Scientist' by P B Medawar.

• 'A student's guide to research' by Dennis S Bernstein.

• 'A guide to increased creativity in research' by Craig Loehle.

• 'Engineers, Programmers and Blackboxes' by Bob Colwell. Few more.

• 'To the Postdocs' by Steven Weinberg

• 'The Algorithm - Idiom of Modern Science' by Bernard Chazelle html

• All Questions Answered by Donald Knuth

• Check 'A few essays about Comp. Sci.' by Douglas Comer (Distinguished Prof. of Comp. Sci., Purdue Univesity)

• 'How to Be a Good Graduate Student' and 'How to Succeed in Graduate School' by Marie desJardins (Prof. of CSE, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County)

• 'How to have a bad graduate student career' by Chirstos Kozyrakis (Associate Prof., Dept of EE & CS, Stanford)

• 'What it means to be a Ph.D. researcher?' by Shankar Balachandran (Asst Prof., Dept of CSE, IITMadras)

• Navigating Graduate School and Beyond - A career guide for graduate students and a must read for every advisor.

• Graduate Student Career Guide by UCLA.

• Various 'essays and opinions' by Oded Goldreich (Prof. of Mathematics and Comp. Sci., Weizmann Institute of Science)

• How to write a great research paper and How to give a good research talk - Simon Peyton Jones (Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research - Cambridge)

• 'How to Write a Good Paper and How to Give a Good Talk' by Liang Huang.

• Collected advice on research and writing by Mark Leone (Researcher at Weta Digital)

• 'Story telling - the missing art in engineering presentations' by D.V.Anderson.

• Pressure problems in Academia an article in 'the guardian'.

• Succeeding in Science by Dan Shechtman, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in the year 2011.

• A very insightful article on developing mind-set: fixed Vs growth in Scientific American 2015.

A key sentence from the article - "Mozart, Edison, Curie, Darwin and Cézanne were not simply born with talent; they cultivated it through tremendous and sustained effort. Similarly, hard work and discipline contribute more to school achievement than IQ does."

• You can grow your brain, key is practice.

• Brainpower by Om Swami.

• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit." by Will Durant in his book titled The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers.

• "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn’t learn until later " by Ronald T. Azuma.

• Top 12 Most Annoying PowerPoint Presentation Mistakes by Curtis Newbold.

• Three-pass method to read a research paper, by S Keshav, Univ. of Waterloo.

• Managing Your Advisor by Nick Feamster (Prof., Univ. of Chicago).

• Writing reviews for systems conferences by Prof. Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich.

• The Task of The Referee by Alan J Smith, Prof. Emeritus, UCB.