Craig Partridge: This essay is based on notes from a lecture I gave at Stanford in 1999. That lecture was easily the most popular one of the course and several people encouraged me to put the ideas on-line. The idea behind the lecture was to provide very basic information that the average computer science student needs, and that my friends and I found that we were not given by the time we had graduated from college. Some of the advice here is from my own experience, but a lot is also from the experience of friends, several of whom kindly shared advice they wished they’d gotten earlier.
Here is the career advice, in summary: Manage Your Boss
Experiment
Avoid Becoming a Manager
Learn to Write
Learn to Speak Well
Finish Projects
Do Your Homework for Reviews and Raises
Keep Your Skills Current
Things I Wish I'd Been Told | 
