If you feel overwhelmed by your inbox and meeting demands, you are likely to be dealing with the challenge of reactive communication. That is, every day, you open your inbox and find tens or even hundreds of requests for information and tasks. Like many people, you may start the day with a sense of dread.
I started this blog (under another name) about nine years and over 200 posts ago… that’s a long time on the internet. In the first
As someone who had a pretty efficient work-life balance system, before COVID made everything happen on a computer in my home… I have been struggling
You don’t get knocked down and bounce back stronger. At least not immediately.
Inger just wrote a really good post over on the Thesis Whisperer blog, about how, right now, we are in the middle of a disaster.
Lots of people are suddenly having to transition to working from home at the moment, and responses have been mixed. I’ve seen both a flurry
It’s the beginning of the year, and some of you are heading back to work already. I certainly am. Not only is it a new
Last week, I headed up to Canberra to hang out with my How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble co-authors and hold a book event. It was
Now my real research is in literary studies, where what I do is called ‘literary criticism’. In my field ‘critique’ and ‘critical thinking’ are the
Okaaaay, so this is pretty provocative as a title, but it’s also true and can be massively liberating. I hope it is for you. Imposter
