We often consider writing an arduous task, bemoaning things such as writers block, or looming deadlines; and the writing requirement of academia usually won’t alleviate this. However, it doesn’t have to be this way, the seemingly sheer cliff face of a writing task can be scaled, and often with relative ease. Welcome…
Now where did I read that quote? What did that book say again? Was the argument in this chapter coherent? For anyone working in a research field I’m willing to bet that you have asked yourselves such questions, and it only gets worse the more you read. So after the…
In the preface to a translated volume C.S. Lewis wrote an essay on the importance of reading old books, bemoaning the lack of application that many people of his era had for the reading of older books, instead preferring to read secondary literature. While Lewis’ essay still speaks powerfully to…
Productivity can be hard, almost like murder. But there are ways of making things easier, various tools that are accessories to productivity. We have all been there, a ton of things to do, but no idea on where to start or in what order to do things. Plus all the…
When it comes to time management, organisational skills and plain old doing stuff there are a ton of pithy sayings out there: ‘to finish first you first have to finish’, ‘to do what you need to do, you need to know what not to do’ etcetera etcetera. Indeed it seems…
When working, or studying, or for that matter going about daily life there are a multitude of skills and disciplines that will help us be better at whatever we are doing. Some of those skills and disciplines I will look at in the Wednesday and Friday sessions. But in addition…
