Hitting Your Actual Ceiling
Jun 30, 20267mEp. 5S3
🛑 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 🛑 One of the nuanced phenomena in academic and research careers occurs when individuals put great effort into developing themselves, persisting against all the obst
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An ever-growing series of tutorials (with detailed notes) filled with practical, experience-driven tips and tricks for being effective, happy and successful in modern day academia and related careers.
Michael hosts Hacking Academia, a arts show with 70 episodes published.
🛑 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 🛑 One of the nuanced phenomena in academic and research careers occurs when individuals put great effort into developing themselves, persisting against all the obst
🤯 A somewhat less cheerful but oh-so-important topic to cover in #HackingAcademia : dealing with Difficult Situations! I'm always happy when I'm learning, and as I've stepped up in leadership responsibilities these last
A slight twist on my normal Hacking Academia video intended audience: today's "On Expertise" video is targeted more at the myriad industry, government and other sector workers who are interested in getting expert advice
Do You Ever Sleep??? 😴 I periodically get variants of this question: "When do you sleep?", "Do you ever sleep", and the more constructive, "how the heck do you manage your time?" In today's #HackingAcademia video, I cov
I have a massive backlog of #HackingAcademia videos to shoot: right at the top of the pile, prompted by a heap of conversations in recent months, is this one: the art of: Separating PROCESS from OUTCOMES This is one of t
🍕 Free leftover food in the kitchen – first come, first served! As a PhD student, those emails were great - I’d drop everything and sprint to the tea room. Free food - what's not to love! Two decades later, I still have
🎓 Did you know there are (at least) four ways to combine supervisors and PhD students for your regular meetings — and that each serves a different purpose? That's the topic of today’s 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 vid
🎥 New #HackingAcademia episode just dropped – and it's a sensitive but hopefully somewhat cathartic one, perfect for a Friday afternoon: 𝐅𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬, 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 🤯 “That guy sounds like a tota
They say you should see the forest for the trees 🌲🌳 - to understand the larger context rather than getting lost in the details without grasping this vital bigger picture 🧩 That’s what today’s hashtag#HackingAcademia v
There's a laundry list of phrases that trigger me in #academia and related professions: one of the most frequent ones is "I don't have time" / "They don't have time." The reason it triggers me so often isn't so much that
When is having a good awareness of the "big picture" in a PhD or general research not helpful? When you need to focus in on the "little picture", to preserve your sanity, lower your sky high stress levels, and make some
This week I had coffee with a new colleague and the conversation got onto the realities and challenges of recruiting, and retaining, the talent you want to work with and need to fulfill all those exciting research, indus
This meeting is driving me INSANE 😡🤯 I regularly take requests for my #HackingAcademia series: today's request was one of many about how to deal with meetings where you're frustrated beyond belief, and want to tear you
🤔 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐌𝐞? 🤷♂️ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐌𝐞? In your career, you’ll regularly hit moments where your confidence doesn’t match everyone else’s. 🤔 “Why Me?” Someone suggests nominating you for an award - and you think, “No w
Time for an update on #ArtificialIntelligence, from my personal perspective in a professional context: my continued exploration of its intense usage in a day-to-day career (2 and a bit years and counting). Key concepts i
😩 Are you regularly stressed out, feel like you're in over your head, and wondering how you ended up working at 2 am on a Monday morning to meet a project deadline? You're not alone: I, and much of academia and research
🥣 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐫, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 🥄 OR 💼 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲! I thought a little bit about sending the wrong messaging with this imag
The Goldilocks Zone is the just-right distance from a star 🌞 where a planet can sustain liquid water 💧 - not too hot, not too cold, but ideal conditions for the possibility of life to exist 🌱. The Goldilocks zone is a
What would I tell my younger self at the point I was starting my leadership journey? 🤔👣 That's the topic of today's Hacking Academia video 🎥 – I like to do the more philosophical ones on a Friday afternoon! 🧘♂️🌤️ I
🎲 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 🎲 I've been wanting to do this video for a while now, and thanks to Maceon Knopke's lovely 3D printed dice, here it is! This is also
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