Time management

• From balance to harmony
• Strategic scholarly retreats
• When time management was easy
• Fostering a culture of guilt-free time off
• Support work-life balance with a daily shutdown ritual

Read more about Time Management

Writing

• Steven Pinker (2015) The sense of style
• Classic style: A cure for stale academic writing
• Goal-driven motivation: Writing when you don’t feel like it
• Understanding your audience: Write what the reader needs
• Writing to understand

Read more about Writing

Meetings

• Lean Coffee meetings
• Meetings should enhance your productivity
• Use the time between meetings
• Avoid using email to coordinate a project
• Batching meetings together

Read more about Meetings

Note-taking

• Send a voice note instead
• Types of notes
• Notes help you remember
• Note-taking for better thinking
• Reduce the friction of writing

Read more about Note-taking

Career development

• A guide to accountability partnerships for academics
• Focus on meaningful core work with AI
• Something sustainable and humane
• Strategic scholarly retreats
• Publish, perish, or speak to someone

Read more about Career development

Email

• How to write a good email
• Urgent email is not a thing
• Email-free mornings: The simplest productivity tip you’ll ever see
• Five tips to stop letting email dictate your day
• Academic life is more than email

Read more about Email

Artificial intelligence

• Focus on meaningful core work with AI
• New online course on Generative AI for Academics
• Simple guide to writing effective AI prompts
• Interacting with PDFs in Copilot using Edge
• Use generative AI to create MCQs from a slideshow

Read more about Artificial intelligence

Focus

• Building and sustaining momentum
• Accelerating impact by decelerating output
• Leverage your peak productivity hours
• Tony Fadell (2022) Build
• Less is more: Doing fewer things, better

Read more about Focus

Guides

• A guide to accountability partnerships for academics

Videos

• Simple guide to writing effective AI prompts
• Interacting with PDFs in Copilot using Edge
• Use generative AI to create MCQs from a slideshow
• Using Obsidian for academic writing
• Types of notes

See all Videos

Marginalia

• Building and sustaining momentum
• Ask your coworkers to push back
• Arbitrary and ossified processes
• Treat perfection like a process
• Iceland embraced a shorter work week

See all Marginalia

Book recommendations

• Steven Pinker (2015) The sense of style
• Tony Fadell (2022) Build
• Cal Newport (2016) Deep Work
• Cal Newport (2012) So Good They Can’t Ignore You
• Oliver Burkeman (2021) Four Thousand Weeks

See all Book recommendations

Tools

• Text expanders for academics save time and enhance communication
• Google Scholar PDF Reader updated
• Google Scholar PDF Reader
• Increase your writing output with distraction free text editors
• Using Obsidian for academic writing

See all Tool suggestions