Entries from January 2007 ↓

Hi all, I upgraded the site to WordPress 2.1 last night.  Everything appears to be running fine, but please let me know if you come across any bugs.
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One principle that really stuck with me from Getting Things Done is the idea of freeing up your psychic RAM.  Always write stuff down.  File things.  Minimize distractions in your workspace…stuff like that.  Otherwise everything can build up and compete for your attention all at once.
One of the things I did in my office was [...]

Most of you have probably heard or seen something by now about the assassination of Hrant Dink, a Turkish Armenian journalist, last Friday in Istanbul.  I knew of him when I lived in Turkey, but I can’t say I followed his writing.  All the same, his death has saddened me, as I know it’s saddened [...]

Chanpory over at LifeClever shares this great parable about perfectionism and productivity:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely [...]

My Internet-free study room in Princeton’s library looks over a foyer with tables that are particularly crowded now that finals are about to start.  On Friday I looked down and saw this guy trying to study for a history class while watching an episode of Scrubs.  I’ve never seen a full episode, so I’m going [...]

I’m running about a week behind on this, but the 6th Carnival of GRADual Progress is up over at Working Writing Wailing Mama.  Once again there are lots of interesting posts on grad school and I found a couple new blogs that I’ll be adding to my reader.

When all the beautiful minds at Princeton run out of windows to scrawl on, they step things up a notch.  I snapped a shot of this setup in Princeton’s Firestone Library earlier today, but it’s been there as long as I can remember.  I’ve never seen anyone working there, so as far as I know [...]