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"Productivity Junta"
I’ve been an admirer of Cal Newport’s Study Hacks blog for a while, and today’s advice has a basis in research and a catchy phrase: Form a Productivity Junta.
Punching through
This morning, I drove my son to a workshop with a ninth-degree black belt in tae kwondo. While he was learning how to punch more effectively, I was writing some critical paragraphs in the article MS I’ve returned to. Quite pleased, and I’ve set up the rest of the argument’s structure reasonably well. I need […]
No rest for the wearying
This morning was definitely the time to get work done early: meeting on the Lakeland campus at noon (an hour’s drive from the Tampa campus), followed by two parental chauffeuring duties this afternoon. So after dropping the son off at school early this morning, I drove out to Lakeland and have spent three hours working, […]
Time warp
I slept in until 5:50 am and I decided to drive my son in to school before showering. I spent some time on e-mail this morning (which is in its own time warp after our tech problems at my college in the last week), and am listening to the webcast of the Florida Board of […]
Working in the kitchen
I’m glad I decided to edit an upcoming EPAA article this morning, since my college’s e-mail is on the blink again. Ouch. Our poor tech services director, on the job only a few weeks, and she and her staff have had to cope with a major systems collapse over more than a week. So instead […]