Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/essential-advice-for-fledgling-scientists/
On one of those sleepless nights when the stream of e-mails kept coming in steadily until midnight and I couldn’t stop responding given my responsibilities as chair of Harvard’s Astronomy department, the administrator at the other end asked bluntly: “Wondering how you are so time efficient. Any tips?”
My response was simple: “I keep my desk clean because it takes more time to return again and again to pending tasks that pile up. As they say in combat units: “do not take hostages because they slow you down.”
Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists
Dec 2, 2019, 4:26pm UTC
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/essential-advice-for-fledgling-scientists/
> On one of those sleepless nights when the stream of e-mails kept coming in steadily until midnight and I couldn’t stop responding given my responsibilities as chair of Harvard’s Astronomy department, the administrator at the other end asked bluntly: “Wondering how you are so time efficient. Any tips?”
> My response was simple: “I keep my desk clean because it takes more time to return again and again to pending tasks that pile up. As they say in combat units: “do not take hostages because they slow you down.”