What I learnt about “how to work” from 4 years, 10 months, and 25 days of teaching

This is my first week as a PhD student at NTU ADM. The week before, I was furiously toiling on my work pc until the very eleventh hour. By which I mean I was supposed to return my laptop at 10AM but at 9.30AM on the cab into the office…

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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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