Electric Motor Design, plus stuff
The Halo effect. I’ve been postponing writing this post for months now, in the hopes of getting perfectly inspired. Well, such things rarely happen – waiting for the perfect conditions to do anything usually gets nothing done. Instead, it’s generally…
Outside highways, taking the middle lane is usually the best. Hi people, just a brief update now. A couple of days ago, I came across an awesome Facebook post by one Steve Hall. It was about the importance of the…
This day marks a kind of a branch-out for me. I’ve written some posts about productivity and stuff, but so far I have regarded them as random musings and no more. However, after coming up with the idea for my…
If you have ever been on the internet, you may have seen the term Kaizen principle mentioned somewhere. Okay, that’s a bit of an understatement: it’s everywhere. From shady only-there-to-sell-you-something self-help sites to some actually quite good lifestyle sites to…
In my previous post, I wrote about accumulated marginal benefit – how small things do count when there are enough of them. However, it would be negligent of me to not write of the polar opposite: the Pareto principle. Pareto…
A couple of posts ago, I mentioned how making a few simple improvements to your presentation technique could set you a few paces ahead your colleagues. Simply put: combing your hair, using your both your verbal and non-verbal languare in…
Why and how to give an awesome presentation I’m feeling productive today, so here’s another post – this time a shorter one! Many academics are not very good presenters. Or can you say you’ve never attended a boring lecture or…
In my earlier post, I gave some productivity tips that I’ve personally found very useful. Now’s the time for some more. 4. Todo lists Lists are nice in more ways than one. They help you not to forget stuff. Duh.…
Everybody seems to love both lists and life-hacks, so here’s my list about ways to increase your own productivity at work. I refuse to call them hacks, because none of them will probably be life-changing on their own (duh, very…