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Monday Master Class: Five Pieces of Unexpected Back to School Advice

January 26, 2023August 25, 2008

Advice, Advice Everywhere… The good thing about this season is that back to school advice is available everywhere you turn. The problem, however, is that … Read more

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Monday Master Class: A Crash Course in the Straight-A Method

January 26, 2023August 19, 2008

Manila-Flavored Advice I recently did an interview with the Manila Bulletin, in which I discussed the basic ideas underpinning the Straight-A Method (the framework for … Read more

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Monday Master Class: How to Start Down the Long Road from Chaos to Efficiency

January 26, 2023July 21, 2008

Restarting is Hard to Do Something that surprised me last fall, when I began to work more closely with individual students on productivity issues, was … Read more

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The Tasty Ingredients in my Productivity Secret Sauce

January 26, 2023April 9, 2008

How I Stay Organized I post a lot of articles on student productivity. As followers of the Straight-A Method understand, I don’t mean to suggest … 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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The Straight-A Method: A Simple Framework For Conquering College

January 26, 2023January 25, 2008

Advice, Advice, Everywhere… Students often ask me how they should sift through all the advice on this blog in order to implement a simple system … Read more

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Monday Master Class: Back to School Advice You Won’t Find in Your Freshman Handbook

January 26, 2023August 27, 2007

Late summer is the season of back to school advice. Nowhere is this more true than in the blogging community. Post after post slops full … Read more

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The Vital Five: A Crash Course for Turning Around Poor Academic Performance

January 26, 2023August 17, 2007

About once or twice a month, I will get an e-mail from a college student who is in real need of some advice to turn … 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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