Personal Brands
It is important that you, as students, to have a personal brand. They are useful to show the world your great work. Do not brag and flaunt, though!
Checklist
- Google Scholar
- Website
- Blog
- X
- Bluesky
Advice
- Website
- For website and blog, there are many templates and tutorials out there.
- Blog
- The best way to learn new things is to write them up in the form of a blog post.
- This is called the Feynman's method.
- Social media
- Remember people including future employers/collaborators will judge you based on your public-facing social media persona.
- Do not meme. Be professional. Only to announce new papers etc.
- Do not self-post your accomplishment. If you accomplished something, let me know. I will post it for you and you can like/retweet it.
danger
Realize the danger of doomscrolling.
- Only use social media to post.
- Block "For You" on X; disable LinkedIn feed, etc.
- Use some kind of browser extensions.
- Don't install social media apps on your phone.