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A Time Management System for Students Who Are Terrible at Time Management And Tend to Hate it More Than Slow Torture Involving Electrical Current and Sensitive Anatomy

January 26, 2023September 19, 2007

Some students simply hate time management. Maybe it goes against their well-cultivated, leather jacket wearing, acoustic guitar crooning, Kerouac reciting image of artistic rebelliousnesses. Maybe … Read more

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5 Ways to Get More Stuff Done During the Day

January 26, 2023September 11, 2007

A common complain I hear from students: “There just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done!” It’s a sad story: The morning … Read more

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How Do You Handle E-mails You Don’t Know How to Answer?

January 26, 2023August 2, 2007

Like many productivity junkies, I’m a fan of the Inbox Zero concept, meaning I try to maintain an empty e-mail inbox. There is, however, one … Read more

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The Straight-A Gospels: Pseudo-Work Does Not Equal Work

January 26, 2023July 26, 2007

This is the first post in a three-part series focusing on the Straight-A Gospels — the core concepts behind my book, How to Become a … Read more

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Monday Master Class: Apply Weakest Link Theory to Time Management

January 26, 2023July 23, 2007

We start, as usual, with a story. If you want to get right to the meaty advice, skip ahead to the heading labeled: The Weakest … Read more

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Getting Things Done for College Students: The Full System

January 26, 2023July 20, 2007

Welcome new readers! If this is your first time here, Study Hacks is a blog that focuses on hacks to help you do better at … Read more

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Three ways GTD and college don’t mix

January 26, 2023July 20, 2007

[Originally sent to Study Hacks Newsletter on 3/27/07] In the previous post, sent out earlier today, I described the main ideas behind David Allen’s Getting … Read more

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A whirlwind tour of Getting Things Done

January 26, 2023July 20, 2007

[Originally sent to Study Hacks Newsletter on 3/27/07] The Two Big Ideas Behind GTD Over twenty years ago, David Allen began a storied career of … 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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