TLDR: I’m ending weekly blog posts because I’m too busy and want to spend the time I work on weekly posts on other projects. The blog won’t be ending, but new posts will be sporadic.
Why
When I started Gereshes last year, I set a goal of publishing a blog post every week. Since then, I’ve kept to this rigorous schedule. I even started enjoying it. It filled two niches that were previously empty.
- Exploring interesting concepts in nonlinear dynamics
- Making me write more
Even though it’s only been a little over a year, where I am in life has changed dramatically. Instead of being a second-semester senior finishing up my bachelor’s degree, I’m now in grad school working on a Ph.D. My free time has evaporated, and those empty niches I filled with the blog have been filled by my research.
I get to explore interesting concepts in nonlinear dynamics through my research. Those posts where I explored the CR3BP are now the basis for my research (My research is in deep space trajectory design). Luckily my research is already beginning to produce results. I’m currently editing one paper and drafting two more. This means I’m up to my neck in writing. I enjoy writing the weekly posts, and for that reason alone I have continued them for the last two months. Unfortunately, a full Gereshes blog post takes about 3/4ths of productive day to put together (coding, writing, rendering, polishing/editing, etc…). Over a year that’s 39 productive day’s. I’m busy and there are other projects I want to spend those 39 productive days on them so I’m ending the weekly posts.
What’s Next With the Blog?
The blog’s not over, it’ll get new posts, just not on a regular weekly schedule. The Posts will fall into 3 categories
- Projects – Like the Matlab Astrodynamics Library, I’ll post about interesting projects that I’m working on once they, or a component of them, have reached a mature enough level.
- Research – A lot of the posts on this blog already deal with interesting nonlinear dynamics and especially astrodynamics. As I mentioned earlier, my research is on deep space trajectory design (aka interesting nonlinear dynamics and astrodynamics). I’m hoping to put out companion pieces to my research on this blog so that people can explore the cutting edge of astrodynamics. Note: there will be about a six-month delay on research as I’ll only be posting companion pieces once the main research has been published/presented at a conference.
- Misc – Sometime’s I’ll want to have a stand-alone post on something I find cool like the flow visualization post
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