Welcoming you in to the secrets, techniques and taboos around succeeding in a Research Higher Degree
It will be no surprise to anyone that I hear a lot of writing advice—some good, some less helpful. But some of it is just literally untrue, and yet the myths are so pervasive that people believe they are terrible writers because they are not following that advice.
How do you differentiate between work that is hard because it’s complex and challenging, vs work that requires a large volume of labour?
People often think hobbies are for kids, or retired people; for people who have holidays that aren’t really conference travel,…
There is an important aspect of feedback that you may be ignoring… and that is accepting positive feedback.
We are still having discourse about who should be productive, who doesn’t need to be productive, how to be productive in the plague times, and it’s all very confusing. While there are some Objectively Bad Takes, there are also just a lot of conflicting views that are mostly confusing because they all assume we know what productivity is and what it looks like… and I’m really not sure we do.
Just popping into the blog to say that Level Up your Essays, the new book with Inger and Shaun, is…
A couple of weeks ago, I actually did that thing on a Monday where you look at all your emails,…
So often people talk about ‘boundaries’ like they are unfortunate, negative, limitations. ‘Having boundaries’ is all about saying ‘no’ and…
You might love your PhD. Or you might have been told you are supposed to love your PhD. And love is weird, and complicated. PhDs are messy and complicated. Let’s talk about feelings.
Want to feel calm, get fired up, or find a balance? Give yourself 2 minutes and some mind control of your lungs, you can do it!
