This post describes a very efficient way to digitize large amounts of books. Why is this important? If you are an academic you (1) have amassed a large collection of books and (2) are bounded to relocate more than a few times i n your life. Moving books is no fun. Plus being able to [...]
Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category
May 30, 2009
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Human Task Switches Considered Harmful – Joel on Software
By jose in Multitasking, ReadingThis old post from Joel is just a fancy way of saying what psychologists studying task switching have found: it’s better to do things in batches. This is also something that GTD, Do It Tomorrow, and other productivity methods attest. The whole point of tagging things with contexts in GTD is to be able to [...]
May 25, 2009
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Optimize the tones of your screen according to the time of day
By jose in Computing tips, ReadingThis is a killer app: Flux calculates what time of day it is and adjust your monitor accordingly. Wonderful if you stare at pdfs (lots of white!) on the screen at night. I wonder how I lived without Flux . It also seems to help regulating sleep patterns. Recommended.
April 18, 2009
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice – ChronicleReview.com
By jose in Reading, Teaching, WritingHow much of the advice we take is based on solid empirical evidence? Surprisingly worrying little! I’d love it if someone actually tries to put together an estimation (let me know if you know one!). The Chronicle, in a surprising streak of opinion articles, finds that Strunk and White’s claims are mostly baseless: Simple experiments [...]