The Pocket Card Monthly QR Exclusive - August 2023

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The Pocket Scientist - High School Edition is designed for kids age 14-18 who love their STEM classes. August is the perfect time to get them a new tool to inspire their learning as they take on new challenges. For August, you can get 15% off with code INSPIRE15 on as many as you want to gift!

August Resource - A method to avoid overwhelm in planning your week of research:

I switched to a new method for planning my work in January, and I've felt 120% better on a day-to-day basis because of it. The biggest difference is that I no longer have all of my goals and tasks staring at me all at once every minute. The method comes from the book The 12-Week Year. Here's why it works for me:

The idea is that you plan 12 weeks at a time, in one long day of thinking and writing. List out every single task or milestone that will take at least 1 hour to finish. You'll have 100+! Now, make "buckets" in your task manager (like Asana, Notion, Monday) for each week and move the task into that week. Give yourself a reasonable amount of work each week and try to get 85% done every week.

Your first few weeks will look full, but later weeks will have room to spare. When some new work appears, just record it and move it to a good spot in a later week. The key improvement is that the mountain of work in front of you "can wait" because you know when you're going to do it, and you have a good plan. That reduces my stress and frees up my brain to focus on the important items each week.

Now, the resources around it are very corporate-focused and not worth buying. Start with this LinkedIn post explaining how it works. Then if you're interested this PhD student made a video about how she uses it with Notion in her research planning. There are a ton of nuances, and I don't follow it exactly, so make it work for you!

Lab Coat Project Update:

As of next week, about 24 of our 28 Beta Testers will have their lab coats. They each have a lengthy feedback form to fill out covering every little detail of the prototype design plus about two dozen questions around the fit and sizing. We’ll quickly incorporate that feedback into a final design by mid-August, update the size charts, and then have everything we need to enable pre-orders. If you know one or see them post on social media, please thank them for their hard work!

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