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Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours

January 26, 2023February 15, 2008

My Schedule Should Be Terrible… I should have an overwhelming, Malox-guzzling, stress-saturated schedule. Here’s why: I’m a graduate student in a demanding program. I’m working … Read more

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Q & A: Dealing with Killer Classes, Notes in the Age of Note Packets, and Avoiding the Deadly Grind Syndrome

January 26, 2023February 13, 2008

From the reader mailbag: I registered for a class that sounded completely awesome. I didn’t have the pre-requisites, but I thought it would be okay. … Read more

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Monday Master Class: The 5 Most Useful Study Hacks Articles That You Never Read

January 26, 2023February 11, 2008

Golden Oldies I get lots of student e-mail. I enjoy this. It keeps me connected to the real world scholastic struggles that you guys face. … Read more

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Weekend Links: A Single Note Card, Being Happy, and Fighting Deathly Schedules

January 26, 2023February 10, 2008

Interesting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal… Links That Win More Than Barack Obama Todoist with a … Read more

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Case Study: How I Plan to Study for my Art History Seminar

January 26, 2023February 8, 2008

Eating My Own Dog Food At MIT, one of the requirements for getting a doctorate in computer science is that you have to take two … Read more

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The Art of Speaking: “There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers,” this and other advice from a master speaker.

January 26, 2023February 6, 2008

How to Speak Every January, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, Computer Science Professor Patrick Henry Winston gives a famed lecture titled: How to Speak. During … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Peform a Post-Exam Post-Mortem

January 26, 2023February 4, 2008

Dweck’s Chemistry Students In her recent book, Mindset, Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck describes a study that followed a group of college students through a difficult … Read more

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Weekend Links: Self-Knowledge, Less Info Clutter, and Disturbing Photos

January 26, 2023February 2, 2008

Interesting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal… A Collection of Links Stronger than Tom Brady’s Ankle Living … Read more

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Cal launched the "Study Hacks" blog at calnewport.com in 2007, and has been regularly publishing essays here ever since. Over 2,000,000 people a year visit this site to read Cal's weekly posts about technology, productivity, and the quest to live and work deeply in an increasingly distracted world, while tens of thousands more subscribe to have these essays delivered directly to their inbox (see the sign-up form below). To read more, you can browse more than 15 years of past essays in the archive.
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