10 Pieces of (Bad) Advice for Young Researchers
This advice is given by somebody who means you well, and after all, they have been where you are now, so how could their advice be wrong?
Avoid teaching it impedes your capability to do research.
Do not share credit. Nobody who evaluates your CV will understand or care. Science is competitive.
It matters more where you publish than what you publish.
Working with users or on applications is necessarily short-term oriented and should be avoided.
Independence is the highest goal for a researcher.
Do not deviate from disciplinary orthodoxy, the reviewers will punish you for it and you will not be able to get an academic position.
Keep your best ideas to yourself because you can easily be scooped.
Time is short, too short to acquire skills beyond those of your doctorate.
You cannot afford personal relationships. Having a child demonstrates lack of commitment to your career.
The worst thing that can happen to you is that you have to work in a more lowly ranked institution than the one you work in currently. You will never be happy or productive again. If you have to get a job in industry you might as well be dead.