[stanford_labrat]

Really? What made you think that? For example, the first “lesson” is to find a scientific niche early that will be hot in 5-10 years.

This seems like decent enough advice to a young scientist.

[warlog]

My advice is to only buy the winning lottery tickets and to stop wasting it on the losing tickets.

[croissants]

I think his advice is a little more valuable than that. I've seen plenty of grad students who just work on whatever their advisor is interested in and don't think about the future. Periodically re-assessing to figure out what will be important in the near future could be helpful to them.