How to get research done even when you think you have no time
We live in a very bureaucratic world, where productivity is measured by the amount of busywork you are able to complete, even though you may not realize that in doing this, you are actually giving away your time for free. For a busy academic, there are so many things that make demands on your time: teaching, administrative work, community outreach, supervisions, meetings for everything under the sun, building industrial connections, and of course, doing everything else you are supposed to do to keep up with your identity as a scholar/scholar-practitioner. Here, I am going to talk a bit about the hacks in getting research and research writing done even when you feel overwhelmed and not quite up to it. This is something I am grappling with as there is now a 500% increase of demand on my time compared to last year. Regardless whether you are teaching two courses or four courses a semester, there are ways to still keep research going, even if you think what you are doing seemed petty o