With this blog, I share thoughts, reflections, and advice on navigating academia, with a particular emphasis on advice for PhD students and others early in their research careers.

I have trained Japanese martial arts (budo) almost my entire life, and I am a former yoga instructor. My perspectives on academia — and life at large — are thus deeply influenced by my personal journey through the martial arts and yoga.

Echoes of my budo and yogic perspectives manifest in all of my posts, sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly.