How to be a modern scientist

I dunno but I'm the author and I think it is pretty useful :). The guides have hundreds/thousands of stars on Github and I think some folks found it useful.

I'm using this publishing model because that is how modern scientists do it - avoid the traditional publishers so you can offer content for free or relatively cheap.

Having read the chapters on Writing and Publishing, I'd say it was an excellent resource, and I think it'd be great for graduate students.

Take publishing an article: beginning grad students often perceive a much higher barrier to starting to write a paper. They have too high an expectation of what an article should constitute in terms of novelty or significance. Instead, the author helpfully puts it in terms of something concrete - 'between 1 and 5 figures that show a coherent story'.

I'll be adding this to my list of recommended reads for beginning graduate students (FWIW, I'm a big fan of 'How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab' by David Chapman, and 'How to Be a Good Graduate Student' by Marie desJardins)

Also I think your model of "buying" a free copy is a great idea. Then if you think the content is worthwhile consider the second purchase a donation.

I prefer that too, so I can sing "I am the very model of a modern academical."

I guess it could work with "scientifico", but not quite as well.