The first of many… (hopefully)

Once upon a time I used to spend all the time I could reading and writing. For joy, expression and to think. Sometime along the way in full-time education, mandatory reading and writing took away some of that joy, or tainted reading and writing by association. Coupled with that, there’s a strange irony to the world of academia: disseminating research findings, or in some instances getting as many publications as possible, is venerated. Yet (to me at least) the pressure to produce the best quality paper/ thesis and to ‘save’ your thoughts and ideas for these works creates a bottleneck…