Now it’s 16:00. It seems today has passed, and half of this week has passed. I am not productive at all. In my mind, I have lots of things to do, and to worry. First of all, I need to continue researching on location paper, and to study category theory knowledge. Any of them can take all my time. However, I have no spirit for working now. I began disliking myself. Such a stupid, lazy woman!
I also worry about my phd work. I always feel uncertainty about my future. I donot know what I am doing is on the way. I donot know where I will reach.
I have worked on contextual models, but even I can not count how many models are popular now, and what proplem they have. However, I may know some, at least ORM by Henricken, and ontologies, while I donot know where I should put my work in.
I have worked on category theory, but I donot know how category theory is applied. I have read some papers about applying category theory in conceptual data model, but I got lost in mathematical definition and proof. I read some categorical books, but the speed I forgot is quicker than that I read
I have worked on applying lattice to uncertainty prolems in location models. I donot really grasp the spirit of lattice, and donot know how to define meaningful join and meet operations.
I have worked on buidling location ontologies, but I donot know where my work is, how I compare my work with others’, and how I implement location ontologies.
All the above are what I have done in the temporal sequence. In each part, I only know little, and leave the key problems unsolved.
Anyway, this may be a phd’s life: always worried, busy, and afraid……
your problems are a short list with many difficult tasks. instead, try create a (long) list, by breaking your difficult tasks down into small manageable steps. when you have finished all those small steps you’ll be finished everything, and every day you will accomplish at least one task (GTD)
p.s. thanks for the plug on your blogroll…
My another problem is to make more effort on thinking of problems than that on solving problems. Thanks for suggestion. I will be better this year.