Tag: Planning

How Long Will Your Research Project Really Take?
You can better understand how long your research project may take if you track your progress, set your scope, and scale your timeline.
5 July 2021
Daily Gleanings: Planning Preaching (20 September 2019)
Daily Gleanings about planning preaching and coordinating it with academic work.
20 September 2019
Daily Gleanings (5 July 2019)
Chris Clearfield, Andras Tilcsik, and Brett McKay discuss complex systems, their failures, and what we can learn from these failures to apply in other fields. This discussion has a number of good takeaways. One of these relates to the concept of “tight coupling.” If you have a tightly coupled writing queue, you have one project…
5 July 2019
Are You Free to Focus? (Part 4: Acting)
This week, we continue reviewing some highlights from Michael Hyatt’s new book, Free to Focus, and treat the final section on “action.” If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to read the prior introduction to the book and our discussions of stopping and cutting. These will each provide necessary context for this final part…
29 April 2019
TopTracker
TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X. The utility allows commenting on each session tracked (e.g., words written during that session). It also allows export via CSV, from where numbers can be crunched further in Excel to see how well progress is going. By default, TopTracker will…
9 October 2017