Archive for the ‘Advice’ Category
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
I volunteered to do a tedious job at work -- copy/paste about maybe 200-400 parameters scattered throughout a group of FORTRAN files. The parameters may be in one of maybe 3 different formats. Also, the parameters came with multiline comments (with each commented line starting with !), and sometimes just ...
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
I had an excellent ~6 hours of solid writing/wrestling with my master's paper one day last week. At this stage, I'm still drafting raw text and am not in the polish stage where I'm honing the thoughts in the sentences and paragraphs, and ensuring my themes and the story I'm ...
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
In trying to implement some new behaviors, I'm finally listening to advice and looking at how to piggyback the new behaviors on existing behaviors. The best way to introduce a new habit being to start small and link the new behavior to an existing behavior.
These are basically implementation intentions [1], ...
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
The first, from an emotional, Buddhist perspective, and the second, from the productive academic's perspective. Both emphasize being mindful of when you're in the state of boredom and how to use that as a cue to put the mind in a more curious, awake state.I like Jonathan's summation of the ...
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Mark Z at ZhurnalyWiki paid me the great honor of referring to my panic post. He ended with this thought: And of course there's my favorite strategy: try to identify what causes panic and avoid situations where it might arise. Sensible (and I think a little tongue-in-cheek) advice, though I ...
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