
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…
Never hesitate to share your knowledge; you’ll never know who might find it valuable. Overcome the intimidation of content creation with these tips: maintain a topic list, batch content creation, stick to a regular publishing schedule, and view unsuccessful efforts as experiments. Teach freely, as others’ shared wisdom has taught you.