Please excuse a brief interruption from our normally scheduled programming. I have two quick notes that I think might interest many of you… Looking for a Few Good Volunteers One of my eventual goals for Study Hacks is to support student groups on...

A Bluegrass Slog I recently began taking bluegrass guitar lessons. It hasn’t been easy. The style is precise, which means that it requires an abundance of repetitious practicing.  A typical session might proceed as follows: Listen to the same 10 -...

Boring on Horseback A few weeks back, on the recommendation of Ben Casnocha, I started working my way through David McCullough’s biography of a young Theodore Roosevelt: Mornings on Horseback. I was interested in the subject, but the early chapters of...

Note (11/24/09): I’m leaving this afternoon for a Thanksgiving road trip. I’ll be slow to moderate comments and answer e-mail for the next week. I’m up to Nov. 10 in my reader e-mail queue. If you sent me an e-mail after that date, you haven’t been...

Fixed-Schedule Redux My friend Ramit, from the exceptional I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog, just published a guest post I wrote about fixed-schedule productivity (the idea that you should fix your ideal schedule, and then work backwards to meet it)....