I'm cleaning my desk.
I've been wanting to clean my desk for quite some time. I've been very slowly decluttering it on and off for a few months, but I've reached the point where I must clear the decks and dust (and dust, and dust and dust), and wipe away the dirt and grime.
I'm also finding all sorts of pieces of paper I kept for some unfathomable reason, and a bunch of half-filled notebooks from over the past 7 years or so (and I haven't even gotten anywhere near my filing cabinet yet).
One notebook I'm just going to throw out (even though it still has plenty of blank pages) is the one I used for a course I did back in 2011. There's a spot of interesting advice in it, though, and I'm noting that here because I think it's worth noting somewhere:
"Never do the conference paper first."
The woman who gave us this sage advice noted that conference papers were easily adapted from journal articles, but journal articles disappear from your list of "things I can actually muster up the energy to do" once the conference is over.
If you write the journal article, then adapt it for a conference, you're then just left with the task of finding a publisher for the article, rather than doing all of the work for the article.
Having recently co-written a conference paper that we were totally going to turn into a journal article to get published (totally), and then singularly failed to put even the smallest amount of work into writing the article, I can see her point.
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I claim that paper is the death-knell of all the Lathe's. Getting rid of random bits of paper is an ongoing struggle. Your post just reminds me to get back to cleaning it up.
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