I hope you’ve been finding the posts here at Intentional Academia useful for finding new ways to approach your work with agency, purpose, and presence.
There’s no new article this week. At my other blog, Grading For Growth, my co-author David Clark and I take turns posting articles every Monday, and I post on Intentional Academia on those weeks where David is posting at Grading For Growth, so I’m typically alternating one week on one blog and the next week on the other. It’s a nice pattern, but this week we had a guest writer which threw off the every-other-week rhythm. So the next new article here will be next Tuesday. Spoiler: It’s about grading.
For this week, here are some links to older posts of mine and newer posts of others to get you thinking about organization, intentionality, and purpose in your work.
Email is the bane of the academic’s existence, but GTD can come to the rescue.
Speaking of email, here are seven very different perspectives on the concept of “Inbox Zero”.
Working intentionally means working with focus, so we have to be ready to deal with distractions.
Trello is a great, flexible tool for lots of different things. Here’s how one person used it for keeping track of tasks and projects.
Speaking of tools, I’ve started using Readwise and I have no idea how I got on without it.
Cal Newport says it’s time to embrace slow productivity.
Finally, here’s a video on 8 weekly habits you can adopt.
See you next week!