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My defense next month will mark the end(ish) of a period in my life when I chose to do a smaller set of things. Partly me getting older and needing fewer parallel projects, partly out of respect for the process of getting a doctorate. This reflection is driven in part by the big digital footprint migration I mentioned in the previous post , transferring my old blogs and microsites from abhardwaj.net to anandb.net, making sure all the old links forward correctly. Made me go through traces of paused interests.  I'm looking forward to doing more things again.  1. Art.  My medium of the moment is calligraphy. I'm working on the text for a tattoo. I havent decided exactly what its going to be, but do know it'll be around this verse from the Gita that's been  on my mind  for a while. Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi in a Pilot Parallel 6mm and Parker Quink Black in a Pilot Parallel 2.4mm  2. Fountain Pens.  Well, this one never really stopped, but the last few new pe...

Its one of those days... I'm reasonably ahead of schedule on all deliverables.  Conference reviews (x7) done. Defense scheduled (March 24th!) + slides ready + 30 min core content recorded for playback/prep. Revision on COVID manuscript done and sitting with Samer. Materials for Jt. Prog PhD Symposium AI workshop prepped. Materials for ASAC Systems Thinking PDW prepped. Outline memo for ICIS short paper with <AE> written. Pipeline memo for next 2 years written. Good draft of job market paper written and percolating. Data analysis for <JS+RN> way ahead of schedule. I'm running out of things to do. So I migrated my digital footprint from abhardwaj.net to anandb.net. If you're reading this on blog.anandb.net then my migration was successful across all allied and microsites.  I guess the elephant sitting in my office with my while I twiddle my thumbs is my future. And my lack of knowledge of what it is going to look like. I dont like this feeling. I dont need a ton o...