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Productivity hints, tips, hacks and tricks for graduate students and professors

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I'm a pre-tenure professor and the father of a special needs child. My final year in grad school, I juggled writing my dissertation, hunting for academic jobs and working on two start-ups. Wasting time is not something I have been able to afford in years. Read below for a write-up of the time-saving tips and tricks I've accumulated over the last few years. If you have tips of your own, please send them my way! Now available in Korean and available in Chinese! Jump to: Distilled into empirically-wrought principles, my high-level advice is: In short, mold your life so that the path of least resistance is the path of maximum productivity. People are surprised when I tell them I'm lazy. I don't try to change the fact that I'm lazy: I exploit it. I try to make sure that the laziest thing I can do at any moment is what I should be doing. Years after I wrote the first version of this article, I discovered a book that provided a basis for my philosophy in sound psychological science, Willpower

Productivity hints, tips, hacks and tricks for graduate students and professors Productivity tips, tricks and hacks for academics (2015 edition) [ article index ] [ ] [ @mattmight ] [ rss ] I'm a pre-tenure professor and the father of a special needs child . My final year in grad school, I juggled writing my dissertation, hunting for academic jobs and working on two start-ups. Wasting time is not something I have been able to afford in years. Read below for a write-up of the time-saving tips and tricks I've accumulated over the last few years. If you have tips of your own, please send them my

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