GTD for Academics: Setting the stage

How do those of us in academia manage our time, tasks, and projects so that we have happiness, balance, and productivity? It's a question that's hard to answer but in this series of posts about the Getting Things Done system, I'll give it a go.

Thoughts on going up for tenure... again

This year I am up for tenure, for a second time. The process is moving along and with it comes some perspectives on the whole notion of tenure, what it can and cannot do.

On eliminating lectures, a reality-check: Part 2

Part 2 of my response to an article in the July 14 _Atlantic_ about the 'elimination' of lecture. Here we take a look at the specious reasoning about time and datedness, and a look ahead at the rest of the article.