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…
Academic ‘disaster scripts’ in a time of disasters
Inger just wrote a really good post over on the Thesis Whisperer blog, about how, right now, we are in…
Successful non-verbal communication for video-conferencing
Now that we have transitioned to working from home, and worked out some of the technical issues about making things…
Virtual Shut Up and Write: now with added Video
This post was co-authored by a really generous bunch of people, some of whom we met for the first time…
Transitioning to working from home
Lots of people are suddenly having to transition to working from home at the moment, and responses have been mixed.…
Three secrets in MSWord that will supercharge your productivity
So Inger, Shaun and I have just finished another book. This one is called Level Up your Essays for undergraduate writers, and…
What is a ‘logical progression’ and how do I make one?
Western logical structures, which developed from the Ancient Greeks and were then developed by the Church Fathers and Enlightenment philosophers,…
‘Turning the dial’: a more sustainable way to make New Year plans
It’s the beginning of the year, and some of you are heading back to work already. I certainly am. Not…
