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title: Making the Invisible Visible
subtitle: Session 01 -- Digest
author-meta: Clément Aubert
date: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
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lang: en
fontsize: 10pt
documentclass: scrartcl
papersize: letter
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keywords:
- Learning Community
- Routine activities
- Efficiency
- Augusta University
- Exploring the mundane
- Modeling the invisible
- Tacit knowledge
---

- Start by acknowledging the systemic bounds and understand your degree of latitude: the ["performance funding metrics"](https://www.usg.edu/research/performance_funding_metrics) of USG or the ["Approved Software List"](https://my.augusta.edu/external/pages/approved-software-list) of Augusta University are not elements you can (easily) change.

- Make sure your workstation will not ruin your health:
    - [(re)Learn to (touch) type](https://training.certstaff.com/News/32/Staffing-Solutions-Learning-to-Type-More-Efficiently)
    - [Adjust the height of your screen](https://improveworkspace.com/the-complete-guide-to-desk-heights-for-better-posture/)

- Practise [universal design](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design) as much as you can, by communicating using multiple file formats and media.

- Embrace [structured procrastination](https://structuredprocrastination.com/): if a task is daunting, try to remain efficient by completing other tasks (this is how [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) was born).

- Leverage existing good practise, such as faculty peer review: you will learn in the process and possibly help colleagues through e.g. tenure and promotion.

- Improve your browsing experience by trying to hide cookies pop-up and advertisement, for example using 
    - [a firefox add-on to remove cookies pop-up](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/),
    - [a firefox add-on to hide advertisement](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/)