I’m all about the productivity, nothing irks me more than an unproductive day. I’ve had plenty to know that I need some sort of accountability, and especially when you’re in charge of your own hours, you really do have to have strong self-discipline. Having a deadline helps enormously. I would say that having constant deadlines […]

Try presenting on Zoom. It’s tough. And quite possibly pointless. In a normal presentation, you rely on the presence of the presenter. If the presenter isn’t there, the presentation doesn’t work, or at least it shouldn’t. So what do you do when the presenter cannot physically be there? I’m beginning to think it’s probably best […]

I’m teaching a writing class at the moment and I’ve reached a very good point. That point? Instead of telling students what they can improve on, I find myself searching for things I can pull them up on! This is only with a few students, but it’s a good place to be as a teacher […]

Books and language, culture and language Why do we teach children to read? Of course we want them to be able to gather information for themselves so that they can contribute to the world at large, but there's another human element at play. Books teach us to live in the shoes of another person, to […]

In Japan, they have a word 社会人 Shakaijin which directly translated would mean someone in society (Shakai means society, Jin means person), however the meaning is actually someone who supports themselves financially. This means that the average undergrad student is not included, and nor is someone who is passed ‘working age’ that needs assistance in […]

You have to be able to sell your skills in order to be useful to the world. Now, there are two ways you can do this, outbound, by putting yourself out there and going to people who you think may be interested, or inbound, by being interesting and having people go out of their way […]

If you push yourself too hard too fast, sometimes it has the opposite effect of what you want. In the case of running, going too hard too fast causes injury which means you can’t exercise at all. If you’re coming back from a break, take little steps before pushing yourself too hard. Still do it, […]