Intentions for the blog

In reflecting back on my research journey so far, I realized that just after my innate curiosity, one aspect that has most consistently driven me towards figuring something out or making something was to share it. This is one reason why I’ve enjoyed conference presentations. Not only because they have a firm deadline, but also because I get to polish up everything I’ve been working on and show it to an audience (not that I mind too much showing my works in progress, with their rough edges and wires sticking out). However, there’s a lot of the journey, the trials and errors, the dead ends, and the elegant solutions to some incremental-but-necessary step, that just won’t make it into the final, succinct story.

That’s what I think I want to share here: the incremental steps along the way. Obviously, not everything I work on will I be able to share. And, even for the things that I can share, there will be times I’ll have to delay sharing—such as crucial details about a paper I’m currently working on. However, in that case, I’m going to try writing posts along the way, and then make them visible when the time comes. So that others, when reading the paper, can get a more complete story than a “tight” Methods section provides.

As a project that’s been going on for quite a long time, and into the foreseeable future, I will be crossposting everything from cardiosomnography.com here as well. I’ve also included posts from a short-lived blog about personal knowledge bases (PKBs). It’s a topic that I’ve been interested in for quite some time, but just haven’t found the time to make real progress on the ideas that I think are still lacking in the tools of today.

Finally, I’m still deciding on a post cadence.