How to write a lot [Book Review]
Here’s my review of Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (APA LifeTools). I loved it so much that I listened to the audiobook three times...
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In the beginning, Epigrammetry just had a Book Reviews category. And, of course, we also spice things up (relatively frequently) with bouldering gym reviews. But gradually, we started adding some reviews of Tech or Travel Gadgets or were at least discussing them on social media. Hence, people asked us to expand this category and now there’s a parent category for reviews with the children “Book Reviews”, “Bouldering Reviews” and “Tech and Travel Gadget Reviews”.
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3. Book Reviews
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Here’s my review of Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (APA LifeTools). I loved it so much that I listened to the audiobook three times...
Here are the key takeaways from various authors on overcoming procrastination that I talked about in earlier posts or book reviews: From Steven Pressfield (“Turning Pro” & “The War of Art”): From Mel Robbins...
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Even though I didn’t love the newest book, Slow Productivity, it did have a few valuable takeaways that got somewhat lost in my book review. What’s more, there really are a good number of...
Nobody knows how to write good conclusions. So for the second post in my recap of Joshua Schimel’s Writing Science (part 1), I will unpack how to write a strong conclusion—according to Schimel anyway...
Nobody knows how to write good conclusions. So for the second post on conclusions in my recap of Joshua Schimel’s Writing Science (part 1, part 2), I will continue unpacking how to write a...
At a recent professional development workshop, I was recommended Writing Science by Joshua Schimel (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2011). I learned so much! Initially, I didn’t expect much because it’s for scientists and not...
In this post, you will learn how to energise and condense your writing according to Joshua Schimel’s Writing Science. His advice really isn’t secret or particularly mind-blowing but I’m making all those mistakes on...
I was disappointed by Cal Newport’s latest book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout (2024). In this blog post, I will share my takeaways from this book, why I was disappointed...
Today, I want to give a brief reivew of Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload (Penguin 2021, see also the author’s website). The summary situates the...
As you all probably don’t know yet – I’m a huge travel gadgets nerd. I own tons of them and spend way more money than I should testing the newest fancy shit from Kickstarter....
Today, after not posting for a long time, I’m back with a gadget review – a category I invented before I went off the blogging grid for a while. Today’s review will be for...
Today’s post is my long ago promised book review of one of my favorite print ressources when it comes to GIS – the new QGIS workbook. QGIS is a free software (easily download it...
Today I’m going to share a review of my experiences with the reMarkable 2 paper tablet. This review was highly requested and I also thought it would be a nice idea to start a...
Today I’d like to share a book review of Rebecca Solnit’s Men explain things to me (2,5h audiobook). I expected to hear about mansplaining for 2.5 hours from the person after whose text the...