Summer Projects
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Teach my Organizational Change workshop in Manchester in July. This is booked, and I’m looking forward to it.
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I’d like to run my workshop on shutting projects down for the first time. If you’d like to host or take part, please give me a shout.
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I’d also like to run How to Not Be Wrong About AI for the first time. Again, if you’d like to host or participate, please let me know.
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Revise and deliver Managing Research Software Projects, although this will probably take a back seat to the three workshops above.
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Finish writing Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code, which in practice means doing the drudge work of editing 70,000 words of blog posts into something coherent.
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I’ve started writing Lean for Python Programmers as a way to (finally) learn a pure functional programming language. It’s slow going, in part because most of the existing documentation is more focused on the teacup than on the tea, but I’ll try to stick with it.
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Finish writing The Cloudherd and the Tiger’s Boy, a YA fantasy novel I’ve started and abandoned several times. I have about 24,000 words against a target of about 90,000, but only three quarters of a plot.
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Get an agent. Some publishers still accept unagented submissions, but having someone advocate for your writing is more important than ever in an age of AI slop. I’ve sent over a dozen inquiries in the last year without luck; if I want any of the stuff I’m writing to get on the shelves, I need to push myself on this.