Entries from January 2009

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Quotes I Hear #1: Some Graduate School Philosophy

When you’re in school of any kind, grad school, college, high school, what have you, you interact with or simply overhear a lot of people. They say things. You say things. This is life. But sometimes things that are said are so precious that they should be remembered and posted on a blog somewhere, like [...]

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Hating on GTD is so Hot Right Now

Photo by: Prabhu B
It’s true. Admit it, being over GTD is the new GTD. I’ll be the first one to admit I’ve been on this train for a while now. Here are some of my “GTD is so not cool” posts: 
-It started off with me talking about how I think priorites are important: Priorities and [...]

Friday, January 9th, 2009

How to Act Productive Special: Approved New Years Resolutions

 

Photo by: cesarastudillo
Here at Grad Hacker, we feel that simply being productive is not enough. What good is your inner, clandestine, productivity, if your bosses, colleagues, and you yourself don’t really know the extent of just how unbelievably productive, busy, stressed, in a rush, and important you really are? For these, reasons, we will periodically provide [...]

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

NY Times Highlights 23 Students that are Cooler than You

This is an inspiring way to start off the new year. Students doing cool things. Click the link below and scroll down to “23 Student Innovations.” I want to highlight a prof’’s comments in the first article about the movie listings iPhone app:
Students come to Mr. Von Ahn during his office hours to talk about [...]