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Research systems
Personal capture, notes, writing, references, and review loops tuned to how researchers actually think.
Time management
Weekly and daily routines, prioritization frameworks, and calendar designs that protect deep work.
Research psychology
Reducing overwhelm, softening impostor feelings, and approaching the work with curiosity and calm.
The scale you can’t see: rethinking the “time problem” through Levin’s ecology
Levin showed that there is no single natural scale at which an ecological system should be described. The same is true of a research career — and the exercise at the bottom turns that idea into a concrete plan for your week.
Dr. Gabriel R. Palma·27 May 2026·5 min readBalancing atomic habits with a deep focus to accomplish big projects.
Atomic Habits and Deep Work read like two halves of the same idea. Here is how I combined them to write a thesis — and a quick assessment that turns your week into a concrete next step.
Dr. Gabriel R. Palma·23 May 2026·7 min readHow to organise your data science projects in GitHub
A practical blueprint for organising data-science research projects: a numbered directory structure that mirrors your scientific method, plus the GitHub Projects workflow I use with collaborators.
Dr. Gabriel R. Palma·19 May 2026·6 min readShould I rush to be more productive? What about slow productivity?
Rushing was my default for years. Carl Newport’s Slow Productivity — and a question from someone I love — pulled me back. Here is what changed, and the six strategies I now use to do fewer things, better.
Dr. Gabriel R. Palma·12 May 2026·5 min readThe email's curse: How long will you spend checking your emails today?
I had created a new habit of checking my emails every five minutes. Here is the system I built to keep professional responsiveness without sacrificing deep work.
Dr. Gabriel R. Palma·5 May 2026·3 min read