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Monday Master Class: How to Use a Flat Outline to Write Outstanding Papers, Fast

January 26, 2023November 5, 2007

The Outline Orthodoxy For decades, students have been held captive by a rigid paper outline orthodoxy. It is first ingrained in elementary school and then … Read more

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Weekend Links: Ogle Planners, Drink Your Way to Health, and Dissect Your Life

January 26, 2023November 2, 2007

Interesting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal… A Copious Cornucopia of Productivity-Themed Contraptions It’s You! Able to … Read more

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The Fitness Guru: Recharging During the Day, Avoiding the Beer Gut, and Self-Amputation

January 26, 2023November 2, 2007

The Fitness Guru Speaks In January of this year, Adam Gilbert, a recent college graduate, left his high-prestige job at Ernst & Young to start … Read more

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How to Use an Administrative Day to Significantly Increase Your Weekly Productivity

January 26, 2023October 31, 2007

Death by a Million Paper Cuts A couple weeks back, I wrote a post for Academic Productivity about how I structure my work week as … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Use Gmail to Reduce Your Study Time by 50%

January 26, 2023October 29, 2007

Filling in the Gaps One of the most overlooked time sinks in the study process is filling in gaps in your understanding. Think back to … Read more

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Weekend Links: Don’t Sweat the Bad Stuff, Take Notes Like Edison, and Applaud David Seah’s Certainty…

January 26, 2023October 26, 2007

Interesting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal… An Extravaganza of Productivity-Infused Detritus The Art of Letting Bad … Read more

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College Chronicles #10: Welton Establishes a Student Work Week and Reserves Extra Time for Low-Stress Test Prep

January 26, 2023October 26, 2007

College Chronicles is a blog-based reality series that follows real students attempting to overhaul their study habits. Click here for the series archive. Welton Wants … Read more

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Does Your College Major Matter?

January 26, 2023October 24, 2007

The Importance of Your College Major Late last week, Ryan Healy, over at the Employee Evolution blog, put up a post titled: Choosing a college … 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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