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TIME MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTIVITY RESOURCES

Hope these resources help. The secret is discipline, focus, and prioritizing (which requires not doing something else). No system is a magic cure. A system only works if you use it daily. Although it’s a difficult process, please remember it’s a unique opportunity to dedicate your full attention to a topic you care about. Hopefully it will be fun.

• Personal Kanban

• RescueTime

• Zapier

The Now Habit

• The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

• Neil Fiore’s Unschedule on lifeclever.com

• Neil Fiore’s Sample Unschedule (I suggest a modified version of this as we will discuss

Getting Things Done(GTD) is more complicated but I use a lot of the techniques in conjunction with Personal Kanban.

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivityby David Allen

• 43 Folders (All things GTD by Merlin Mann)

• Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode audio podcast with GTD’s David Allen

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleby Stephen Covey

Time Warrior

• Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaosby Steven Chandler

Eat That Frog!

• Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

Personal Kanban

• Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Lifeby Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry

The Pomodoro Technique

• Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes?by Staffan Noteberg

• pomodorotechnique.com

• 5 Pomodoro Timer Extensions For Google Chrome

• PomodoroFox

• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz

RECOMMENDED WRITING RESOURCES

• NYU SoE’s Thesis guidelines

• NYU’s Tips for Thesis and Dissertation Writers

• • Dissertation Abstracts (Sample Theses)

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Editionby Strunk and White

• The Mac is Not a Typewriterby Robin Williams

• Dr. Kendra Gaines’ Basics of Academic Writing

• Guide to Writing a Masters Thesis

• How To Write X Number of Words a Day & Not Go Crazy

• Purdue Writing Lab

• • Purdue’s OWL: Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition

  • Purdue’s OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide

  • Purdue’s OWL: MLA Sample Paper with Endnotes and Bibliography

  • Tips and Examples for Writing Thesis Statements

  • Purdue’s OWL: Starting The Writing Process

  • Purdue’s OWL: Why and How To Create a Useful Outline

  • Purdue’s OWL: Proofreading

• Chicago Manual of Style

• Indiana University Writing Lab

• Columbia University Writing Lab

• Paul Brian’s Common Errors in English Usage

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne Lamott

• NYU Library

• • Graduate students have access to a wide range of amenities in the NYU libraries, fromspacesdesigned just for you, toclassesthat will help you become a better researcher, to on-demand consultation and help from our35 subject-specialist librarians. VisitNYU Libraryto learn more about our services and our world-class collection of research materials.

  • Can’t find the book you need in BobCat? Book checked out? Request it fromE-ZBorrow, a catalog of more than 50 academic libraries. Books arrive in 3-5 business days to Bobst Library (other locations may take a few days longer) and may be borrowed for 12 weeks.

RECOMMENDED ACADEMIC RESEARCH RESOURCES

• Pew Research(for statistics)

RECOMMENDED ACADEMIC RESEARCH TOOLS

• EasyBib

• NCU Citation Builder

• Mendeley

• EBSCO

• IEEE

• JStor

• Fifty alternatives to JStor

RECOMMENDED PRESENTATION RESOURCES

• Speaking.io

• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (2nd Edition)by Garr Reynolds

RECOMMENDED CAREER RESOURCES

• GlassDoor

• AIGA’s Survey of Design Salary 2014

• NYU’s CareerNet

• NYU’s Wasserman Center for Career Development

• • NYU’s Wasserman Center’s Resume & Cover Letters

  • • NYU’s Wasserman Center’s Resume Samples

    • NYU’s Wasserman Center’s Cover Letter Sample

  • NYU’s Wasserman Center’s Events

  • NYU’s Wasserman Center’s Finding a Mentor

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

• The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updatedby Timothy Ferriss

• Anything You Wantby Derek Sivers

• The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the Worldby Chris Guillebeau

• Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Wayby Steven Pressfield

• Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discoveredby Austin Kleon

• Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creativeby Austin Kleon

• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battlesby Steven Pressfield

• (If you likeDo The Workby Steven Pressfield, which is pretty much a distillation of the principles in The War of Art, also by Steven Pressfield, I highly suggest you acquire this one as well.)

• Lean In for Graduatesby Sheryl Sanders

• Thriveby Arianna Huffington