Someone once described me as "scarily efficient". I have to say, I took it as a huge compliment. However after reading The 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss - Amazon) and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R Covey - Amazon) I've been focusing more on Effectiveness. There's an important distinction. You can be ...
Goals for this week were: Finish coding current mini-project Write more on thesis, get to the point where papers can be integrated Finish Combinatorial Algorithms assignment Meet with CA prof to talk about project Read 4 papers Read thesis – “Networking in Everyday Life” 2 blog posts Portfolio website – add all pages and finish home page - decided to leave this until ...
Subtitle: Things that Universities should tell you about, but often don't. I'm in my 6th year at university now, and over the course of it I've assembled my suite of tools that maximize my productivity. When I meet people from outside of Computer Science, I'm always amazed that they haven't heard of so many of these; ...
For this week my goals were: Clubs week for WISE Organize movie night (try and delegate) TA in French, don’t meltdown Incorporate giant pile of papers into Introduction Polish introduction such that I can send it to my supervisors Coding: phase 1 ended up coding something different, but I've made significant progress on it Assignment 1, Combinatorial Algorithms Finish reading Presentation Zen Read 6 ...
So last week I put up a list of things I hoped to get done last week. I did not achieve all of them, or anywhere near. WISE Speaker event WISE Coffee social (bake!) WISE Self-defense seminar - Questionable whether I can check this off, it was a disaster. Organize meeting for WISE, outline the plan for Women in ...
Being so busy this week has got me thinking about the concept of "having time". We all have 60 minutes in each hour and 24 of them in each day for however many weeks, months, years or - hopefully - decades we have left on this planet. We just can't know how long that is. I ...
I've wasted a chunk of the afternoon having a bit of a panic attack. This morning I had physio on my knee, followed by an hour of time hanging out in SITE waiting to meet with the guy who's course I'm TA-ing (I read some of the 60 page book chapter I'm carrying about with ...
Check out the video from Google, below. I thought it was really cute. Google docs is a great, free alternative to MS Office, but that's not where the real power of it lies. For collaboration, for any document that anyone else is going to use, it's such a better alternative. During the summer, I was working for ...
At the moment, I'm reading The Wisdom of Crowds. It's a really interesting book, all about how crowds can organize themselves to achieve great things... and how sometimes they organize themselves in such a way that things go horrifyingly wrong. I picked this book to read next in part because of an experience I had ...
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