The Practice of Astrophysics (tm)

Over the last few weeks—and the last few decades—I have had many conversations about all the things that are way more important to being a successful astrophysicist than facility with electromagnetism and quantum mechanics: There's writing, and mentoring, and project design, and reading, and visualization, and so on. Today I fantasized about a (very long) book entitled The Practice of Astrophysics that covers all of these things.