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An attempt to reflect on my training and performance in the 2022 Mississauga Marathon.

This document is an attempt to list and describe the elements of what I take to be an optimal academic workflow (content of papers not included).

A series in which I attempt to keep a record of my training over 18 weeks, as I attempt to run a marathon PB.

A series in which I attempt to keep a record of my training over 18 weeks, as I attempt to run a marathon PB.

This is the first blog post in what hopefully will be a series in which I attempt to keep a record of my training over 18 weeks, as I attempt to run a marathon PB.

This second blog-post is a somewhat auspicious one: I have just completed a rather extensive overhaul of both the back and front-end of [Spinoza's Ethics 2.0](http://ethics.spinozism.org). Much of this was not directly related to DataViz or Digital Humanities more generally. But there are some important reasons to think about these things which are the topic of this blog: data consistency and coherence (in acquisition, storage, interpreting, and visualizing), and data complexity (again, from all sides).

Some years ago, I returned to graduate work after a year off spent working. I spent much of this time reading and working through the demonstrations of Spinoza's *Ethics*, retracing his deductive steps by hand, using scraps of receipt-paper. By the end of that year, I had more or less worked out the entire structure of the text and placed this in an idiosyncratic spreadsheet format.