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Category Archives: academia

  1. Reverse-planning (backcasting) a paper (or a research project) December 31, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity, research, research methods, writing.

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  2. My yearly planning process through the Everything Notebook December 28, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity.

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  3. Simplifying your document processing: The Four Trays Method December 26, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity.

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  4. Rules, norms and institutional erosion: Of non-compliance, enforcement and lack of rule of law December 23, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  5. Mind mapping as a strategic research and writing tool December 22, 2016

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  6. 8 strategies that may help keep up with reading during the semester December 22, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  7. In defense of libraries December 16, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  8. Flint, Mexico and the dangerous, slippery slope from tap water to bottled water December 16, 2016

    Posted in academia, bottled water.

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  9. New publication: The Environment (book chapter in International Relations) December 10, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  10. Processing a Paper Protocol – from PDF to memo December 5, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  11. Project Planning Protocol – From idea to paper in one swift sequence November 16, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity.

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  12. On getting a good night of sleep and the biphasic 6 + 1.5 hours cycle November 12, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  13. Getting writing done as a motivator to write more November 11, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  14. On doing the grunt work in academia November 6, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity, research, writing.

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  15. On the value of urban ethnography in understanding contemporary society November 3, 2016

    Posted in academia, ethnography, research methods.

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  16. Using #AcWriMo to develop a daily writing practice October 29, 2016

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  17. Using the rhetorical precis for literature reviews and conceptual syntheses October 24, 2016

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  18. Granular planning and The Rule of Threes October 19, 2016

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  19. Generating new ideas for (or within) papers October 17, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  20. A few warm-up strategies to start your workday October 14, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity.

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  21. Strategies to sustain your research during heavy-teaching semesters October 9, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity.

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  22. On slow scholarship, time investments and good research October 8, 2016

    Posted in academia, research.

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  23. Resilience, overwork and stress management in academia October 1, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  24. My talk on The Governance of Bottled Water in Mexico at the Center for Latin American Studies (University of California, Berkeley) September 30, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  25. Comparative Policy Studies (Engeli and Rothmayr Allison, Eds. 2014) September 17, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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