The year is still relatively new, with barely a sixth of it behind us. The first two months have shown good progress, and I'm starting to have more to show for it. For instance, the patent application we put in back in 2012 finally issued! This is well-timed, as our publication on that work is finally trucking along towards a final manuscript. In other career-stress news, I also finally revamped my CV for the first time in years. It took almost two days to parse through all the feedback I got in order to get it into a form that everyone had a positive view of. You can't make everyone happy, but settling for a few HR people during the interview process might be a good idea. I'll be giving a talk during industrial affiliates in two weeks about the hybrid solar collector that we've been designing, and the unique challenges with optimizing that kind of system. With the big pushes on self-promotion I've been given lately, I should also take time to polish up my LinkedIn page, despite the fact that I really don't like LinkedIn.
The reading list I posted earlier has more-or-less held up, some books have been dropped and others have been added. I've had mostly good experiences with the books I chose, but am finding a few less engaging than I'd hoped. I'll reserve judgement until I've finished them though. While I haven't had as much time to dedicate to side project as I'd hoped, I'll definitely post updates when I do.