# Academic Chat with Murat and Aleksey: 5 Cs of the Invisible Curriculum.

DevFeed: [Academic Chat with Murat and Aleksey: 5 Cs of the Invisible Curriculum.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/academic-chat-with-murat-and-aleksey-5-cs-of-the-invisible-curriculum-39542.md>)

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Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2025-10-10T22:31:34Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [abstraction](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/abstraction.md>), [Continuation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/continuation.md>)

Tags: [academic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/academic.md>), [collective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collective.md>), [craft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/craft.md>), [curiosity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/curiosity.md>), [discussion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/discussion.md>), [other-thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/other-thoughts.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

A discussion about the skills and qualities needed for PhD research, framed around the five Cs: Curiosity, Clarity, Craft, Community, and Courage. It especially considers research taste, levels of abstraction, curiosity, stopping points, and the influence of academic communities.

## Source excerpt

Instead of reading papers, last night, Murat and I engaged in an interesting discussion on skills, traits, and qualities needed for a PhD. This discussion came as a follow-up to Murat's recent blog on "The Invisible Curriculum of Research." In his blog, Murat discusses "Curiosity, Clarity, Craft, Community, and Courage" as skills/qualities of a good [...]