Top takeaways from Cal Newport books so far
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...
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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...
In my academic writing journey this year, an issue that has been plaguing me is whether I’m suffering from the “one more source to cite” myth and procrastinating on starting writing or whether I...
I spent the weekend meditating at a silent retreat and had a big insight during a work meditation session (where you attempt to do household chores with awareness) that I wanted to share with...
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...
I was motivated to write this blog post because I watched this YouTube video of a PhD student who is thinking about quitting because “academia with its networking isn’t for them”. If that’s you,...
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
This is just a quick post to tell you, in case you needed to hear, that it’s completely natural to ever be grappling with performance pressure in academia. And why advice like “just do...
In this series, I explain how you can get better at academic job applications (see the first part Applications in Academia 101: A Survival Guide (Part 1)). Now I’m going to provide some more...
In the last post, I outlined how you can get better at academic job applications (Applications in Academia 101: A Survival Guide (Part 1)). Now I’m going to provide some more detail on what...
In the last post, I outlined how you can get better at academic job applications (Applications in Academia 101: A Survival Guide (Part 1)). Now I’m going to provide some more detail on what...