My previous post Fred Stutzman and Facebook reminded me of an essay from the May/August 2000 issue of North American Review. The essay I tore out and kept in my “Essays” folder lo these many years was by the writer Norman Lavers, now retired from teaching English and enthusiastically maintaining a site on The Robber [...]
Tagged blessay, curmudgeons, Email, the simple lifePenelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she’s talking to twenty-somethings and I’m a forty-odder. Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, a graduate degree would [...]
Tagged DoIReallyWantaPhd?, penelope trunkEconomic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines. Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats. The best suit for your body type. Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling angry and [...]
Tagged digitization, libraries, Marginal Revolution, Proto-scholarI meant to add this time management rule to my previous Fall Review post. I can’t remember whether it originated with Mark Forster or David Allen, but it goes something like this: At all costs, avoid heroic efforts to get things done. Examples of an heroic effort would be pulling an all-nighter or shoving all [...]
Tagged FallBreak, Mark Forster, Time managementImage via Wikipedia During 2007′s fall break, I took a breather and penned (odd word for a blog post, but I’ll use it) an update on how the semester was going and the changes I was going through at that time. A question from Brother Thomas and my friend Rani’s firing up of her own [...]
Tagged FallBreak, Index card, Mark Forster, TheAdjectivalCassidy, TheBeauteousLiz, TheStateOfTheMike, Time management