Category: productivity
The PhD is not just about working hard, the PhD is about taking care of yourself
This blog took a backseat for a couple months due to several reasons. One was due to the realisation that blog activity doesn’t equate to coursework or PhD writing activity, and I’m also in the process of rebuilding my website (a major revamp!). I also had a health scare, and…
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Organising your PhD Data with Notion, Google Sheets, Google Drive
Hello my mysterious PhD blog readers! How many of my friends are also pursuing obscure interdisciplinary PhDs? Who are you? What motivated your to read a post with a title like this? This blog has been on the backburner because I’ve been working on a massive DBBD website overhaul that…
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Time for the real work!
Real Work? Welcome back to Debbie’s writing blog after an unexpected one month hiatus! It is Day 75 of my PhD and it has been a super busy month – I have never read so much or written so much in a long while! Because I am embarking on a…
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The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities
The first month anniversary of me starting my PhD and a recap of what’s been on my mind – classic crit theory texts, uncanny wasp faces, the computational turn in the social sciences and humanities, the different typologies of the PhD Thesis, and a sneak preview of my research propositions.
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To journal on paper or digital? And what daily endeavours could significantly improve one’s writing and visual output?
One of the things I’m trying to do is to write a journal daily, but for the last year or so I’ve already switched to a nearly paperless system using Goodnotes. My setup is that I use an iPad Pro 11″ which I think is a good balance between portability…
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Meta-Reading: Does interpassivity explain why I often end up reading books about Productivity and Lean Methodology instead of reading books about art, culture and actual literature in my free time?
I want to read works of literature and books on art, culture, but instead I note that I frequently find myself avoiding those reads in order to read about entrepreneurship and productivity or lean startups. Why is there something unbearable about being confronted by the object of my fascination?
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