Summer Projects Revisited

So how did I do?

1. Teach Organizational Change in Manchester in July: check.

2. Teach shutting projects down for the first time: check.

3. Teach How to Not Be Wrong About AI: no one was interested enough to host it, which surprised me.

4. Revise and deliver Managing Research Software Projects: revised, but haven’t delivered.

5. Finish writing Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code: check, for some value of “finished”.

6. Write Lean for Python Programmers: I abandoned this one and Gleam for Python Programmers; no-one seemed interested in either.

7. Finish writing The Cloudherd and the Tiger’s Boy: nope. I did finish The Makers Return and Eimin in Medef, though.

8. Get an agent: nope. This is my biggest disappointment: without an agent, my chances of selling any of my fiction are essentially nil.

9. Find a job of some kind: I’m still waiting to hear back on a part-time gig with the Canadian government, but nothing else has materialized.