What you need to do yourself to prepare a publication? This is one of the big shifts for people moving…
Communicating well in a mask
COVID-19 keeps presenting us with communication challenges—and as professional communicators who deliver complex, new and sensitive information usually in face-to-face…
The Classroom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This is a very long read that takes a few paragraphs to get to the point. It’s a point other…
Working out why something works
As someone who had a pretty efficient work-life balance system, before COVID made everything happen on a computer in my…
Rediscovering the telephone
Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you…
What matters isn’t your writing software, it’s your file structures (sorry!)
Thanks to Anuja Cabraal who asked this question! It’s about 2,500 words of answer, so this is absolutely a Definitive…
You don’t have to feel ready to take action
All of this works because we start doing the work. By not delaying the real work through endless reading and procrastination, we start working towards our end goal, in ways that actually contribute to our goals. That is, we start making words on the page that can be added to and refined until you have enough good enough words to submit a passable PhD thesis.
We build resilience through healing AND challenge
You don’t get knocked down and bounce back stronger. At least not immediately.
Questioning the super-productivity push – from the productive side
But I’m just submitting my third book manuscript in a year (not to mention a book chapter, two commissioned poems, a book review, some peer reviews, and a short non-fiction piece that I also submitted in the last 12 months). So it’s not that I’m excluded from super-productivity, it’s that I’m benefiting from it and succeeding at it and I’m concerned by it.
When ‘not doing’ is the most work
If you are like me, you are used to having a to-do list and deadlines and plans, and really more…
