See New Horizons
A PhD is a deep dive into a narrow pool, where years of your life are dedicated to building out a tiny bubble onto the circle of human knowledge. The tradeoff is when that incredible focus pulls attention away from being exposed to what else is going on in the world.
Half the battle is just in knowing your options once you have some tools in your toolbelt.
But how could you know?
How can someone keep up to be informed on all of the topics, opportunities, and positions that would benefit from your brain and hands, while also deep in your own thesis?
You need a exploration plan.
A plan to consciously wade out into the open waters, with no idea of exactly what you’re looking for, or what you’ll find. By building off of Section 1, we’ll at least know ourselves enough to recognize opportunity when we come across it.
Here in this section, we’re going to explore how to build a first-principles framework for abstracting our value and re-applying it to new scenarios. How to generalize and apply our knowledge to more than our thesis. The classic “Thesis Planning is actually Project Management”. Then we’ll explore how to follow a trail of breadcrumbs to new opportunities.
This station helps you label the complete opportunity spectrum available to PhDs, revealing sectors, roles, and pathways that leverage advanced research skills in ways that might surprise you. We’ll use search tools, role tracking, pattern matching, and more, to paint a much bigger picture of roads to travel down.