Tweet Jose posted an article last week about one person’s PhD experience, highlighting many of the common difficulties encountered when doing what’s largely a self-directed research project. There are loads of books about how to finish a PhD that expand on these questions – of supervisors, organizing your time and so on – but I’ve [...]
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Tweet The efficient academic google group has a thread on a really interesting problem. Any hack addressing this has a high chance of saving several hours per week for those of you who teach. Given lecture material has three components: Slides for digital projection (preferable PDFs rather than PowerPoint or Keynote) Lecture notes to support [...]
Tweet Dan posted in his blog that he had managed to get seven papers out in the open literature in January. I had to interview him. AP.com: How do you manage your daily workload? Dan Navarro: A lot more pragmatically than I used to. I put an hour or so aside each morning to cover the [...]
Tweet Here is my attempt at a general strategy for managing time. I define productivity operationally here by measuring it in terms of publications (of course, this definition may have critics). The central point is that your time at work can be divided into productive and unproductive time (see graph), and that both are important; [...]