A Study Hacks Primer

Fixed-Schedule Redux My friend Ramit, from the exceptional I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog, just published a guest post I wrote about fixed-schedule … Read more

The Fitness Guru: Focus on How Fast You Recover, Not How Much You Do

The Fitness Guru Speaks

I’ve seen a recent uptick in e-mails asking how my strategic approach to academic advice might apply to health goals; most notably, avoiding those inevitable college pounds. As always when it comes to such issues, I turned for guidance to Study Hack’s resident fitness guru, Adam Gilbert of the exceptional My Body Tutor service.

Adam, there’s no real “secret” to staying fit, you need to eat well and exercise. Yet I keep getting e-mails from students who struggle. What’s the issue lurking behind the scenes here?

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I’m Off to Brazil

A Southern Journey I’m leaving tomorrow for a one week computer science conference in Brazil. I will almost definitely have Internet access, but my time … Read more