You and Your Research by Richard Hamming: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
It's rare to have a researcher of that caliber give nitty gritty advice on having the greatest impact in your research.
It's rare to have a researcher of that caliber give nitty gritty advice on having the greatest impact in your research.
The world still needs a few workers doing non bleeding edge stuff, and they deserve to be content with life, too. People doing CRUD work aren't necessarily a waste of life.