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For me, the draft means that it&#8217;s sorta closing in on finished and sorta changing phases so that next it will continue coming up against all of the questions from my committee, questions that will re-open it, grow it, and overfill the footnotes.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this entry something like a State of the Dissertation report.  At 270 pages and six chapters, it&#8217;s long enough. I&#8217;m satisfied with parts of it; dissatisfied with others.  The two tail-end chapters need some TLC.  Nobody&#8217;s read them (me? I <i>wrote<\/i> them), and I&#8217;m not settled about what sort of work they need, so I&#8217;ve sent them in. And I&#8217;ve taken feedback from more than half of my committee on Chs. Zero (Intro) and One, from just under half of my committee on Ch. Three.  I&#8217;ll get to first-pass revisions on Ch. Four sometime after Watson but before the end of the month. I also have some work to do on fixing up the works cited.  Right now the works cited is so disheveled I could carry it around in a grocery bag (a reusable one, of course).<\/p>\n<p>In what little free time I&#8217;ve had this week to think about the sum of the project, I keep coming back to the idea of a wave or an arc as the shape I want to reckon with.  I&#8217;ve tried to translate it into a graph using criteria I&#8217;m calling&#8211;today&#8211;a satisficiency index, which plays on Herbert Simon&#8217;s idea of &#8220;satisficing&#8221; from <i>The Sciences of the Artificial<\/i>. Simon blends sufficient and satisfying, giving us &#8220;satisficing&#8221; as an alternative to &#8220;optimal&#8221; (in matters of AI, search, and so on).  The satisficiency index registers an impression: How satisfied am I? and How sufficient is this? rather than reporting whether or not this is optimal. Much in the vein of pain tolerance questions posed by a physician (on a scale from 1 to 10, how much pain?), I have conjured up numbers corresponding to my satisfiction with the diss as drafted.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ewidem\/2926069880\/\" title=\"satisficiency by ewidem, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3296\/2926069880_c3a7950203.jpg?resize=500%2C397\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" alt=\"satisficiency\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would this curvy line match with my committee&#8217;s report of the same?  In certain chapters, perhaps.  This is a question worth asking, right?  And in conversations or via written feedback, I have come away with varied impressions of committee satisfiction. This variability is good and generative: everyone does not tell me the same thing. The graph also hides the order in which the chapters were drafted; two was first, followed by zero and one.  The rest, three through six, progressed in order.  Yet, with feedback from committee members, and especially with revisions, everyone&#8217;s level of satisfiction should increase, right?  (Please let that be the case for those last two, real tumbleweeds compared to the rest).  Dissertations need to be &#8220;good enough,&#8221; right?  After making this graph, I began thinking that I&#8217;d like to have the average score up around 7 or 7.5.  Right now it&#8217;s at 5.7.  Clearly there&#8217;s more work to do. The graph, as a distant reading of the diss, helps me square with the work awaiting me, albeit in a deliberately simplified model.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Kidding.  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