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Enter the Hyper Key
One of my productivity aspirations (read: not a goal) is to get better at utilizing the keyboard for quickly completing…
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During the next academic year, I will go through my institution's equivalent of the tenure process. (We don't have tenure,…
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Plans
One of the things I've been thinking about is building a regular, sustainable use for this space. At the moment,…
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Thinking About Inputs
An effective personal productivity system is all about having a plan for your stuff, defined broadly. This implies that it's…
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A Review of "Can't Even"
A couple of weeks ago a review I wrote of Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout…
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Tools and Workflows: Building Spring Courses
As our fall semester mercifully winds down, the time has come to transition from the brainstorming phase to the creating phase for spring courses. I wanted to highlight some of the tools I'll be using.
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Brian Phillips on Monolith Fatigue and the Attention Economy
One of my favorite creative nonfiction writers working today is Brian Phillips. I started reading him at Grantland (RIP), especially…
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Cal Newport on the failure of Getting Things Done
Late to the party on this one, but I wanted to highlight Cal Newport's recent piece in The New Yorker…
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Email is a dumpster fire
Send an email and watch it burn in a perfect coda to 2020.
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A Confession
My experiences this semester will have a lasting impact on my relationship with time management and personal productivity systems.
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