I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper.
Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!
Just throwing out a link to one such paper based course (Datacenter Networkjng) from UC San Diego - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html
One thing I liked about grad school is that there would literally be classes where students were assigned to read a foundational paper in the field and then discuss/write about it, so my personal go to has been to try and find “Intro to X” grad level courses and see their paper assignments (most professors tend to put most course material online).
It’s not something guaranteed to give you results but often I will stumble into interesting stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise.
I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad school as well and found it really helpful. I never thought to continue doing this in fields that piqued my interest. Thanks for the suggestion!
While we're on the topic, here's the advanced distributed systems reading list from UIUC:
https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList
I took the class a number of years ago, but found it super interesting.