Audience
For the postdoc deciding stay, jump, or pivot.
Honest math on academic ceiling vs. biotech/pharma compounding. The AI-augmented workflows that translate ten years of bench, computational, or clinical research into something a hiring manager — or a paying client — can price immediately. Plus the structural read on which industry roles are actually opening, and which are quietly closing.
Guides
All guides →The H-1B PhD's risk arsenal: layoff-proofing inside your 60-day grace period
A layoff on H-1B status gives you 60 days. Here is a structured risk management framework for the first two weeks — and the open-source tools that reduce friction at every step.
Read →Your dissertation is a moat. Your job is to stop hiding it.
Most PhDs entering industry bury their research experience in two lines at the bottom of a resume. This is the wrong approach. Here's how to package dissertation depth as visible, priceable expertise.
Read →Late-start technical professionals are not behind. Here's the math.
If you finished your PhD at 31, you are not five years behind your peers. You are five years deeper into a moat they will spend the next decade trying to dig. Here's why the conventional framing is wrong — and what to do with the correct one.
Read →Tools
All tools →actual
A local-first personal finance app
anki
Anki is a smart spaced repetition flashcard program
Continue.dev
Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Brings model-agnostic chat, autocomplete, and edit-with-AI to your editor — connect Claude, GPT, local models via Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Logseq
A privacy-first, local-first, open-source platform for personal knowledge management. Outliner-based, with a graph view and Markdown/Org-mode files you fully own.
activitywatch
The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.
aider
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
AppFlowy
Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.
khoj
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
Open WebUI
A self-hosted, feature-rich web interface for running local LLMs via Ollama. Supports multiple models, conversation history, RAG, and a plugin system — all running on your own hardware.
Cal.com
Open-source scheduling infrastructure for independent consultants and side-project operators. Self-host it or use their cloud tier. Calendly without the vendor lock-in.
Reactive Resume
Open-source, ATS-optimized resume builder with real-time preview. No accounts required, no data sent to third-party servers. Exports clean PDF and JSON.
open-resume
OpenResume is a powerful open-source resume builder and resume parser. https://open-resume.com/
resume-cli
CLI tool to easily setup a new resume 📑
Collections
All collections →Open-source toolkit for the postdoc deciding whether to jump
You're 29, three years into a postdoc, and the question is finally real: stay for the next fellowship, or leave for industry. Here's the toolkit that makes the exploration phase less painful.
Claude Code Skills for the late-start technical professional
A curated set of open-source Claude Code Skills aimed at PhDs, MS holders, and postdocs in industry. Covers literature search, manuscript writing, code review, and the editing layer that makes AI-assisted output shippable.
Tracks for this audience
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