1. be up front and honest about the things you do not know
2. acknowledge the intrinsic value of others’ knowledge bases, even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context
3. do not feign mastery where you have none
4. respect the gaps in others’ knowledge bases
5. be generous, not only with others
6. but also with yourself
7. you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimizing a culture of overwork 
8. privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy
9. nothing is ever neutral or apolitical
10. support the progress of other scholars
11. collaboration over competition

“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”