As you may know, my writing is long.

It's not just the columns; my papers and reports are also long.

About the series of columns on the web, the editorial board will forgive me (even if they have been annoyed)

However, regarding academic papers, the conference secretariat never forgives me(or rather, they don't accept them).

So today, I was working on busting out the hard-won writing and diagrams to reduce a 9-page paper to 6 pages.

It was painful work.

Especially hard to decide to cut off a diagram that I have put my heart and soul into.

Saying, "I'll be sure to use you when I present at the conference', I deleted the diagram with crying.

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By the way, I have a seminar presentation tomorrow.

I found myself with a nearly 40-page PowerPoint document.

Present this in 7 minutes -- yeah, absolutely not possible.

Now I must decide which 30 pages to delete (or skip).

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Well, I have these vices that have allowed me to continue blogging for more than ten years, so I try not to think of it as a bad thing in general.