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Tools for Decreasing Your Productivity

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While the mythical 10x researcher shall remain, well, mythical, there are some tools for decreasing your personal productivity, turning you into a 0.1x researcher. One of these, for me, are WYSIWYG editors, in particular Word and Google Docs. Whenever I have to use one of them, my thinking turns into molasses, and my writing dries up like some rivers do in summer. Regardless of how often I try one of these tools, there is always one thing that annoys me: Either I forgot how to format references correctly, or I do not immediately get how to format a list. The result is always the same in that, instead of focusing on the writing as such, I am stumped, slightly furious, and debate whether it is a good use of my time to solve this problem now. It rarely is, but I attempt it anyway. The weirdest thing is that I tried learning Word a couple of times now, but I just cannot grok it. Its processes are totally alien to me, and I feel like this piece of software was not written for me, regardless

Tools for Decreasing Your Productivity Tags: academia , research , musings Published on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 << Previous post: Misinformation Does Not Need Large … - Next post: There Are Probably No Silver Bullets >> While the mythical 10x researcher shall remain, well, mythical, there are some tools for decreasing your personal productivity, turning you into a 0.1x researcher. One of these, for me, are WYSIWYG editors, in particular Word and Google Docs. Whenever I have to use one of them, my thinking turns into molasses, and my writing dries up like some rivers do in summer. Regardless

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