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Highly productive people do not have more time, but they may have more energy, more method and better feedback on their progress. Are you really running out of time?

Graduate school is not education. It is socialization. It is about learning to behave, about mastering a rhetorical and discursive etiquette as mind-blowingly arcane as table manners at a state dinner in 19th Century Western Europe. Graduate school is cotillion for eggheads. Easily Distracted » Should You Go to Graduate School?

The trick, then, is to get a job based on work you haven’t done, and stick around until the details of what you did are forgotten. That’s when the true rewards of academia set in. Structured Procrastination – The Academic Trough

To the world of rare books Mr. Friedlaender brought a rare commodity: a sense of fun. Helmut N. Friedlaender, Lawyer Who Collected Early Books, Is Dead at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com

Also, how do you explain that China is providing the bail for the bailout? As David Gergen said tonight on CNN, “China’s become our banker.” Even harder to tell that kind of “freedom” story. Why CNN Struggles to Cover The Economic Panic – Boing Boing