I came across an informative post on the OCIS doctoral student blog providing some helpful suggestions for preparing for job interviews. The photo included in the post alone (duplicated here, image source: rickz on flickr) was worth the link.
I think I’ll dedicate a future post or two to answering the sample questions included in the [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Preparing for an academic job interview
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged employment, ICIS, interviews on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Constrained by our own myth-conceptions
Posted in productivity, tagged cold, exercise, faith, goals, mindfulness, writing on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read an article in the New York Times this evening summarizing a position paper by a physiologist arguing that reticence about exercising in cold weather is largely a product of 1) misconceptions about the safety of exercising in the cold and 2) inappropriate dress–driven by misunderstanding the nature of our physiological response to cold–for [...]
Group awareness in a digital world.
Posted in research, tagged collective mind, empathy, groups, synchronicity on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After I finished teaching class one day, I walked in late to a presentation. Almost immediately, I could tell things weren’t going well for the speaker. There was an uneasy tension in the room. The facial expressions of the attendees were masked or furrowed, and the questioning was not very energetic. Regardless of the ultimate [...]
When picking tools, less is often more.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged productivity, simplicity, task-technology fit on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had to put together some instructions for our secretary to enter a considerable amount of data into a series of web-based forms. My first impulse was to create a series of screen shots, dump them into Microsoft OneNote and annotate the screen shots with the instructions. (I’ve done that in the past for a [...]
Accomplished artists plod through work like the rest of us.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged productivity on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read a summary of an interview with an accomplished artist that illustrates my last post. It appears that Chuck Close attributes his genius to consistent hard work. He also describes how he is able to structure his work so that it is achievable in discrete chunks. I think there’s something to [...]
It all comes down to exercise.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged practice, productivity, self-mastery on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to be more productive in my scholarship lately. A challenge and a blessing I’ve found in the Ph.D. program is that there is always something to do. The challenge becomes learning to select which of the many opportunities to take advantage of. I think I found a key [...]
