Everyone tells you that doing research well takes a good chunk of time – but I promise you that doing research poorly takes even longer!
Want to make good use of your research time?
Don’t read every article with a title that sounds like it might be relevant to you.
(You read that correctly. I said don’t.)
Instead, evaluate every step of the way to see if what you're looking at is something you might use. Let's say you've done a search...
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And then, after you click...
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