I’m not much of one for New Year’s resolutions. The way I see it, they only set you up for disappointment and self-admonishment sometime in mid-February. But that said, there is a value to assessing where you are in life and setting some “aspirations” for the future. For example, last year I started to keep [...]
Archive for the ‘Time management’ Category
November 24, 2008
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Thinking on what you will do after retirement? Think again!
By jose in Announcements, Time managementIf you are like most people in the academia, you place a lot of value on security and benefits. You also have great plans for that day when you retire and have time to… well, have a life . Jack Cheng has a superb post on how much you can expect to live and use [...]
November 13, 2008
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Ending Adolescence earlier and the obsession with productivity
By jose in Resources, Time managementImage via Wikipedia BusinessWeek has an interesting post on how adolescence could be a failed social experiment and we should let 13-yo kids take adult-level responsibilities. While the idea is good, I still find it troublesome in a society that works more than ever and has less spare time even when technology should provide abundance [...]
November 8, 2008
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Magnificent post of project management, and why Google does it right. More on why untested claims work
By jose in Time managementSteve Yegge has an insightful post on the Agile programming methodology from the perspective of a googler. Why is this important to academic productivity? Well, most of the things he talks about are related to our previous conversations on why it’s hard to measure productivity, and why people buy into fads about it. For example: [...]
October 24, 2008
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Pavlina’s book review: Personal Development for Smart People
By jose in Book reviews, Reading, Time managementSummary: I didn’t like the book, and won’t go into detail here; instead I marvel at how many people read, believe and act on things that are completely unsubstantiated by any evidence. But that only shows my naivety: it seems that most of the world outside science -and some inside- works that way. Who is [...]