A couple days ago, as I was wandering the interwebz, I ran across the Academic Productivity blog, and from there, this article about increasing research productivity. It’s intended audience appears to be administrators at research institutions, but the advice is fairly applicable to individual researchers too.

First on the list is the advice of writing 15 to 30 minutes every day. I had heard advice before about writing on a regular schedule, but the advice I’d seen before was more like to make 2 hour blocks of time. Personally, I can’t imagine making much progress in 15 minute blocks, since it seems to me like it takes 15 minutes just to remember where I was in whatever I’m writing, but I’m going to try it.

Some of the time, what I’m writing will also appear here, as “leaving your door open” is also supposed to be a good practice (though not while you’re trying to write).

Oh, and I finally figured out all the details of migrating this blog off of godaddy to 5gigs hosting!