I'm super productive when I'm by myself, up before dawn, and have a deadline staring me in the face.  But I've also given talks on this same set of topics annually since 2019, so I'm not starting from scratch.  I've also been preparing off and on over the past week, including for a while on the plane yesterday.  I just hadn't written down exactly ( Read more... )

I haven't adjusted to Pacific Standard Time at all!  As I expected, I woke at 2am, and I was not falling back asleep even as I tried ( Read more... )

I realized late in the game that I wasn't going to the same LA hotel as last time -- this time I was going to the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.  Given the cultural supremacy of Beverly Hills in these United States, I started to expect something glamorous.  But after a long day of travel, my actual hotel room is rather uninspiring and truly below ( Read more... )