Motivation
How to deal with rejection in 5 easy steps?
How to deal with rejection in academia in five steps. A working professor’s honest framework for paper rejections, grant declines and bigger career setbacks.
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9 best research tools to supercharge your writing and data analysis
Nine research tools to speed up your writing and data analysis. A working academic’s tested stack for moving from raw data to a submitted paper, faster.
Productivity
Publish or perish: did we get lost in the pursuit of academic success?
Publish or perish: did academia lose its way chasing success? A working professor’s honest reflection on the system, what it rewards, and what it costs.
Motivation
How to be positive, motivated and productive by self-aware procrastination?
Why you do not always need to stop procrastinating. A working academic’s case for using self-aware procrastination to stay positive, motivated and productive.
Productivity
5 steps to set the goals (not just for New Year resolutions!)
Five steps to set goals that actually stick, not just for New Year resolutions. A working academic’s framework for personal and research-career goal setting.
