Summer Projects Revisited

So how did I do? Teach Organizational Change in Manchester in July: check. Teach shutting projects down for the first time: check. Teach How to Not Be Wrong About AI: no one was interested enough to host it, which surprised me. Revise and deliver Managing Research Software Projects: revised, but haven’t delivered. Finish writing Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code: check, for some value of “finished”. Write Lean for Python Programmers: I abandoned this one and Gleam for Python Programmers; no-one seemed interested in either. Finish writing The Cloudherd and the Tiger’s Boy: nope. I did finish The Makers Return and Eimin in Medef, though. Get an agent: nope. This is my biggest disappointment: without an agent, my chances of selling any of my fiction are essentially nil. 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.