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How to complete your PhD by Pandammonium at 09.40 GMT, 17 Jan 2008

Academic Productivity ยป How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method

Maybe this will work. I’ve been meaning to tell my supervisor to give me deadlines for work. There was a short time when I had to produce something weekly, and I got loads done then, but it’s all pretty wishy-washy at the moment.

Also, Parkinson’s Law is very true – I’ve known this for some time, although I never knew it had a name. And Hofstadter’s Law is true as well, even if you do take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

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Update: another way to get stuff done is to not have an attention-seeking cat.

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  1. Pandammonium: blogs [pandammonia] at Tuesday 22nd January, 2008 @ 9.58am GMT Europe/London

    [...] deadlines, so he’s given me the choice of two: either next Monday or next Tuesday. This was supposed to help. So far, it’s nearly ten o’clock, I’m not ready, and I’ve played two games [...]

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