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Friday, May 13, 2011

Productivity Tips for academics

Some Great productivity tips and tricks, such as:

  1. My philosophy: Optimize transaction costs.
  2. Don't work from home.
  3. Eliminate temptation to waste time.
  4. Salvage dead time with technology.
  5. Get rid of your TV.
  6. Consolidate email accounts.
  7. Work from a laptop.
  8. Use a calendar system.
  9. Power-use a smartphone.
  10. Turn off instant messaging.
  11. Minimize collaboration costs.
  12. Use a citation/paper-management system.
  13. Procrastinate productively.
  14. Iterate toward perfection.


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