My wildcard day
I’ve wanted to have the chance to regularly work from home for years, but it was never an option in any of the jobs I’d
I’ve wanted to have the chance to regularly work from home for years, but it was never an option in any of the jobs I’d
Of all the posts I wrote for this blog in the early days, ‘Generative Writing and #shutupandwrite‘ has dated the most. In those days I
Usually I keep my to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember it. Once I’m in a
So, I’m hesitant about detailed plans because I notice that people often get stuck in them. They make a plan then have to do this
Often candidates and researchers come to talk to me when they are trying to get back into academic writing after a long break. That break
A typical aspect of early drafts of writing by doctoral candidates is the way they are focused on defining their research question. This is important,
One of the biggest challenges for PhD candidates, and any writer, is motivation. There is little external motivation beyond ‘getting this book-sized thing done’, and
Yes, this is another metaphor about writing. Let’s see if it goes somewhere useful.
So reverse outlines are super simple, and super powerful. Basically, instead of writing a detailed, paragraph-level plan before you start writing, you do the writing
I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity and efficiency recently. Reading yet more articles about startups working a 4 day week/ the 4 hour work
