Entries from July 2008

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Grad Hacker is Here to Stay

Alright folks, I’ve posted once in the past month and four times in the past two months. Yet somehow, miraculously, the readership persists (thanks!). Some projects on the research end are starting to wrap up, so I say it’s time to rock and roll. I will guarantee one post a week and try to shoot [...]

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Long Term Output is More Important than Minute-to-Minute Efficiency

Photo by: .Fabio

In the quest for productivity, blogs with the word “hack” in the title and other similar literature often end up discussing in detail ways to increase efficiency. What does that mean, efficiency? Efficiency is most often some metric for gauging output per unit time; how much work you are getting done in a [...]