Emptying your inbox
Until recently, I would regularly keep 20 or 30 emails in my inbox as reminders of things I needed to do. So there were 20 or 30 emails that I knew I needed to act on, yet I would need …
Category: Personal Growth
Mental Momentum
Often times when you are first starting a task, it is easy to get overwhelmed by how much energy it is taking to do even the smallest aspects of the task. You wonder to yourself, “If it’s this hard to …
Writing things out to better understand them
Have you ever attempted to read through a challenging document (technical or non-technical) that presented a lot of material you struggled to understand? Examples include textbooks, technical papers, legal documents, insurance information, etc. I have found that one of the …
Presenting at technical conferences
Recently I attended a technical conference, and I was disappointed in the number of presentations that I found completely incomprehensible. I’m not referring to people who didn’t speak English as their first language. In fact, many times those people had …
LaTeX equations in PowerPoint
Recently I wrote a paper for a conference, and I wrote it entirely in LaTeX (an alternative to Microsoft Word that is much closer to a scripting interface than a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get interface like Microsoft Word). After the paper was written, …