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For context, Matt Might is formerly a professor whose research was in programming languages/program analysis. Professors like to code too!

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I’ve really missed his blog. I read his posts over and over during grad school.

His story of pivoting from PL research to medical research (and being a star in the field) is quite motivating.

I have been reading Matt' blog for quite long too. I read his post on his son condition but never really noticed if he really switch his academic careers for his son. I am pasting the really motivating video sharing the story [1] and a NY times article here [2].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/freethinksuperhuman/videos/15306506...

[2] https://archive.is/l7pCA

I stopped reading his blog when we wrote about how to get tenure and completely omitted talking about all of his wife's stay-at-home work.

Can you explain why? What relevance does his wife's stay at home work have to someone else trying to get tenure? Do you think he doesn't appreciate his wife and that rubs you the wrong way?

Thank you for the kind words!

I missed blogging too, so I set a New Year’s resolution in January to write at least two blog posts this year. It had been over seven years since my last!

I still hadn’t written one by November, but now I’ve got three for the year.

I’m optimistic I can keep it up now.

I've asked my team at Amazon [usual disclaimers] to read this, and highlighted my favorite takeaways: "Well-timed sleep was probably the most important thing I did", and "Using sleep to do the heavy lifting on algorithm design". I love this concept, and need to incorporate more of it myself.

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