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A paper addressing some of the well known problems of peer review in a somewhat polemic tone.
Academic Productivity » Academics are prostitutes?

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Procrastination is one of my favourite topics, becaue getting in control of it makes you very productive (have I mentioned that I should do some programming right now instead of posting to my blog?)
zefrank Procrastination video
This video is so hilarious.
Here’s some more info, with a bit of humor. (structured procrastination)- it works!!
And I also found [...]

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Here’s to the Internet:
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Productivity at elite universities
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite [...]

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This is quite interesting, though not astounding.
So it seems that everybody, especially in academia, is overworked. There is a simple solution in the dao de jing, which is also given in the Bhagavad Gita, by the way: Do what you heed important, but do not strive for the fruits of your work.
In other words: don’t [...]

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