dissertation accountability note
also I haven't written the acknowledgments because that seems like bad luck to take the victory lap prematurely
dissertation accountability note
sorry, 256 pages for the actual dissertation, the whole document is 335 pages
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-153/ this week in sentences: styrofoam, kill-time, sci-fi prison, truth, Ross Perot, knives, extraordinary, apology, swanning, Marx!, Kochian night, feline, discomfitingly, footfalls
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/africa-ip-addresses-china-3e543b9d this is a real niche "right into my veins" type article for probably a lot of the sickos that follow me
(I am reading Hess and Ostrom in 2007 on knowledge commons fwiw, they focus on common pool but cite Benkler on the free speech-y framing)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-152/ this week in sentences: money, glacier, sphere, scooter, cabinets, surely, always too many, purple, brainworms, grooved, chocolate chip cookie, canned tomato soup, slender means, actuality
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-151/ this week in sentences: unknown gods, creature, monopolist, instead, punch, stone-green, hat, mouthfeel, succumb, anti-rat, whales, lighted panels, perverse
dissertation accountability note
Introduction revisions in and we're at 57,285 words without the conclusion, assuming I'm not adding too much more to the conclusion we're looking at 61-62K total which is technically on the shorter side for a dissertation but I'm fine with shorter because that's easier to repurpose for journal articles.