'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.