2008 Fall Semester Wrap-up

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Image by Angela Sabas via Flickr Follow-up to my fall break posting. I spent the last two days deleting 1000+ emails from my Gmail “read this later” pile, deleted all unneeded emails from my fall classes, and deleted from my hard drive all the working files and drafts I used to create ...

No Heroic Efforts

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I 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 ...

Fall Review

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Image 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 ...

My big fat learning experience

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

I started the fall semester a younger and more idealistic man than I am here at the halfway point (fall break). Still, I survived (and thrived) and things are looking up. September was my transition month from going to grad school to being a grad student: that is, I can say ...