Academic Success Blog

So, I got a little feedback from that five favourite timewaster’s post. Basically it went like this: okay smart guy, anyone can list what makes them waste time. What do you do that actually works? Or do you just sit around all day trying to think of what to put up on the blog? (Of [...]

Anne Lamott, in her dare-I-call-it-”cult” book on writing, Bird by Bird, talks about always having index cards at hand to jot down ideas before they vanish into the ether (as ideas—those frustratingly elusive will-o’-the-wisps—tend to do). Often, as we’ve already observed, getting started on something can be the really tricky part. Index cards can be [...]