
Calm productivity for academics
This site is now an archive of my previous work. I have moved all my ongoing writing to https://michael-rowe.github.io/home-michael/
Most of us treat learning like filling a bucket—we think that if we consume enough content then understanding will emerge. But after months of podcasts, videos, and articles about AI, I had breadth but couldn’t take positions. The problem wasn’t reading too little. It was reading for breadth when I needed depth. Here’s how to…
Transform your academic reading from passive consumption into active dialogue. Engaging with scholarly texts through questioning, challenging assumptions, and making connections can lead to deeper understanding and new insights.