A PhD students needs a room of balloons

🎈 The metaphor is that I should be living in a room of balloons rather than a tightly packed trunk of.a car on vacation.

This is a space for some productivity ideas around this concept.

First, Andy Stapleton has a video about a workflow to be productive as a PhD student. How to collect, read, annotate, analyze, and synthesize.

Larry McEnery talks about the process of academic writing, with the main messages being:

1. tell the experts they're wrong.
2. Knowledge is a conversation moving through time
3. Your writing must create value or it is useless

Tara Brabazon has a process for reading any article:

1. Read the abstract, intro, and conclusion.
2. Answer two questions:
   1. What is the argument this article is making?
   2. How is it valuable to my reserach question?
3. Read the articles that are most valuable, toss the ones that aren’t.