Great tip. Most of the time a supportive referee wants to do you the favour of providing a constructive reference and it only makes sense to nudge them in the right direction.

Which is a crying shame cos traffic's grim on my commute to work. Still, it's nice to have a little me-time early in the am.

Really nice piece. Teaching others is such a powerful way of cementing your own learning.

An enjoyable 'How I work' as ever Andy, but where's Tessa these days? Didn't she used to captain this particular ship?

Enjoyed this a lot. It's so interesting to hear about the often very pedestrian trials and setbacks faced by entrepreneurs.

This takes me back. I spent some happy hours as a child wrapped up in the Earthsea trilogy.

How comes there's no tap water in your coffee machine?

It sounds like a thing of beauty:)

Yeah, that'd be a nice feature. Even so, the other feather in Mendeley's cap is the academic social network that integrates with it. A great way to reach out to other researchers in your area and search for related papers.

Great article Patrick. Got a lot out of this.

I don't know if it's just me, but I have the dickens of a time getting hold of a decent pair of nailcutters. I've tried lots over the last few years and they all come up half-blunt and virtually unusable. I'd like to scale up to find a workable set, but in my experience this isn't a part of the consumer market where…

Great resource Mihir. Thanks for sharing this.

One of the biggest drawbacks to a conventional office environment. The constant drone of mindless prattle from co-workers is a real drain on productivity.

Nice-looking system. I'm not too up on it, but isn't this a big element of the 'Getting things done' practice?

Of all the films to get busted for...

I know he gets a lot of flak on the intertubes from a legion of critics, but I really like Tim Ferriss's stuff. His Four-hour books are full of great tips.

Yeah, seems like a terrifically useful tool to go so unnoticed for so long.

What were you drawing?

Yeah, I'm the same way. I'll get the smallest cup of coffee on the menu and nurse it for an hour and a half while I do my stuff.

That's epic:) How lucky are you?