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The academic culture of posturing regarding time management is a distinctively American phenomenon.
Their wordsIt seems to me that very nearly all of this sort of guff is pure posturing, net of a very small kernel of obvious truth about not whiling away the weeks playing gin rummy or watching movies to the exclusion of all else. It's a distinctively American sort of posturing, too-you can probably trace it back to Ben Franklin or someone.
Their wordsAs a thing for academics to do, writing a blog can be an endless black hole of self-absorbed wittering-or, it can cultivate a capacity to stay interested in things and to write about them fluently in the course of everyday life.
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