Jody's Advice to Young Scientists
Others' Advice
Guidebook for New Principal Investigators (includes good advice for writing papers and grants that students and postdocs should read)
A CV of Failures, such as this one from Johannes Haushofer (an otherwise successful Princeton prof) is a good way to highlight that even successful people have a lot of (usually hidden) failures. If you're not failing enough. you're not taken enough risks.
Advice from Brian Scholl:
Ramon Y Cajal's Advice for a Young Investigator is an amazing book
Some thoughts on mentors from Stephen Jay Gould
Grammar rules that you'll remember:
Science
How to calculate visual angle and a proper visual angle calculator (usually you want to use “centered” version).