I've seen plenty of self-developed curricula in the spirit of "my personal master's degree," but I've never seen a "my personal PhD." What would it need to have, and which parts would actually be plausible outside a traditional PhD program? Ideas:
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Tagging in (I hope you’ll forgive the intrusion); Kevin, did you ever write up your approach/experience here?
Ha, not an intrusion at all! Very curious to hear Kevin's thoughts.
Haven’t written up my approach; not sure what there is for others to take away. (I’m sure there are a couple things, just not sure what they are :P.) For one thing, I didn’t try to fully model it after a PhD, like David’s interesting ideas here.
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One thing I’d hazard from my n=1 experience is that it might be pretty easy to find a mentor/advisor. With the internet, people are fairly approachable, and for as little as an hour a week, you’re offering them the chance to deeply shape a serious person’s work in their field.
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