Less is more: lessons from my first year as faculty

Well, it's certainly been a long time.

Last fall, I had high hopes that I would be able to continue posting on this blog regularly. Yes, I knew the first year as faculty was notoriously overwhelming. I knew I'd be in for what my colleague called in a very understated way "a very busy time." 

But I also knew I was an organized, productive person. A person who was good at accomplishing goals. After all, I ran a blog about all those strategies and tools for making good use of time and managing expectations and setting smart goals. Plus, these posts were hardly a huge time commitment. Certainly much less time and effort goes into writing a short post than into planning even one day of the classes I was teaching. Wasn't all that true?

It turns out, it was. And that's exactly why this blog vanished for the better part of a year. 

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