Grad Hacker

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Guess what my answer is to the title question. Guess, I dare you.
You got it:
@No.
Is it a sin in the GTD community to speak ill of contexts? Maybe. Will I ask for forgiveness? No. Below are my reasons.
First, a caveat: if you are a businesswoman or man that on any given day [...]

First of all, let me comment (make excuses) for this week’s performance:
1. I went to a rockin’ NBA game in the middle of the week which kept me up late that night so that threw off the next day by a lot.
2. I didn’t have as many days to average out that day because I [...]

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Note: In light of the popularity and timing of Merlin Mann’s recently posted MacWorld video, I should note that these tips were written with a technical presentation in mind, where data, figures, text and in general significant information on each slide is often necessary. In that vain, I’m also not sure how presentations [...]

The tortoise won the race my friends, the tortoise won the race. I can take comfort in the fact that on any given week I am not drastically changing my schedule, which according to gurus and experts everywhere means my habit change is more likely to last…right?
I did cross the 8:30am mark, which is exciting.
What [...]

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Here’s a great scientific article on how stopping an excercise routine pushes you back from your fitness goals a lot farther than you may have thought: Irregular Exercise Pattern May Add Pounds Here’s the big-money quote:
He found that runners who decreased their distance from five to zero miles per week gained four times as [...]

Is it possible that I managed to go to sleep almost a half hour earlier (10:19 pm average) and only get to work 4 minutes earlier on average? Who goes to sleep at 10 o’clock, sleeps 8 hours to the minute, and doesn’t get to work until 8:30am? That’s absurd.
I do workout in the morning [...]

I’ve heard students and professionals alike lament about how much time they waste on the internet reading news. Grad students are incredibly susceptible to this since we’re so often just sitting in front of a computer with no risk of a boss walking behind us, doing work that is just begging us to stop and [...]

Photo by: pshutterbugAs I mentioned in a long review, I’ve been using Todoist since August. I’ll have you know that Todoist and I are still doing quite well. So well in fact that I recently started forking over $3/month for the premium membership. I’ll share my thoughts on that another day.
Today, however, I want to [...]

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So here are the results of my early rising experiments for Week 1. I want to emphasize that it’s my first week, so I’m still learning! My goal is to get into work by 8:00am, including days when I go to the gym in the morning (supposed to be 2 out of the [...]