{"id":842,"date":"2010-07-29T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-07-29T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:30:31","slug":"a-day-of-good-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/2010\/07\/29\/a-day-of-good-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Good Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started the day with a characteristically cathartic and constructive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/files\/2010\/07\/DSA_072910.rtf\">DSA<\/a> meeting, followed by a lengthy lunchtime hiatus in honor of Tais&#8217; last day at work. In the afternoon I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/files\/2010\/07\/20100727.pdf\">met with Andy<\/a>, going a long way towards resolving some of the issues and anxieties discussed with Beau in the morning. Some concrete outcomes of the meeting:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As regards the morphospace, Andy thinks my approach of linking morphometric data to Neptune is &#8220;spectacular&#8221; (his words), and thus worth the effort, even if this means putting in a fair amount of work tracking down obscure descriptions of fossil genera.<\/li>\n<li>After hearing my complaints about the difficulties of the FIB work, Andy stated that he believed the morphospace, diversity\/e-o, and radiolarian projects would make &#8220;three valuable chapters&#8221;, which I understood to mean &#8216;sufficient for a thesis&#8217;, and that I may decide at the end of the summer that the FIB project would be something I&#8217;d save for a post-doc.<\/li>\n<li>Andy was very engaged by my re-telling of Alroy&#8217;s SQ algorithm and continues to think that the E-O project will make an &#8220;interesting and important&#8221; thesis chapter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Knowing that the FIB project is not a requirement for graduation immediately transformed my perception. Suddenly\u2014without the pressure of feeling that I have to do it\u2014the FIB project seems infinitely less depressing and daunting, and much more like a challenging adventure. It&#8217;s funny how the mind works.\u00a0All in all, a great day of meetings&#8230; and that&#8217;s not something you hear often!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started the day with a characteristically cathartic and constructive\u00a0DSA meeting, followed by a lengthy lunchtime hiatus in honor of Tais&#8217; last day at work. In the afternoon I met with Andy, going a long way towards resolving some of the issues and anxieties discussed with Beau in the morning. Some concrete outcomes of the meeting: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13584],"tags":[16272,16528,16287,16334,16233],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timekeeping","tag-diversitye-o","tag-dsa","tag-fossil-diatom-fib","tag-meetings-with-andy","tag-morphospace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kotrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}