Productivity
Concurring Opinions:
So how do those tremendously productive professors in our midst manage to get so much done? I’m fascinated by this inquiry and – in a terribly unproductive procrastination technique – spend a good deal of time wondering about where they write, how they write, and so forth. This piece on Writers’ Rooms, for example, sucked up an entire afternoon.
Perhaps if we attempt to examine a day in one of their lives we’d gain more insight. But one day is probably too small a sample size, inasmuch as the goings-on of a single day could easily omit regular obligations (if the day in question, for instance, doesn’t include routine though not daily teaching, writing, exercise, &c.) while giving undue weight to relatively rare tasks (if it happens, for instance, to include an irregular faculty meeting, doctor’s appointment, &c.). A year in their lives would be far more revealing, if…