Make sure you know who your project partner is. I was given three for this one project– a computational modeler, a statistician and an epidemiologist. We worked hard and long on building a model of a complex system. Then we had an update meeting with the Dean, their boss. She wasn’t too happy with the overall direction or state of the project.

So I had some splainin’ to do. But in the middle of trying to figure out what had happened, I realized the big problem: not only has it been a major challenge working with three different primary project partners (who frequently disagree with each other and slow everything down) but there’s a forth project partner, their boss. Lesson for the future: know who the partner is. If I had known better than the the Dean was the real partner, I wouldn’t have assumed she was talking with the three content experts and I would have been communicating with her more directly. That would have prevented surprises. That’s all about that.

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Good sleep last night. Only sexy in one part, fortunately, because otherwise I wake up raging and frustrated and life is hard. The more my dreams can stick to adventures, the better off I’ll be.

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Today I have a couple meetings, then I need to train, then uptown for content work on the site housing the obesity simulation, then home to do the reading for Theories of Communication which I TA tomorrow. Things are smooth. Resume is getting padded and edited and I’m fairly excited.