The first week of February marked the end of an era for me, both professionally and personally. On Monday 6, I successfully defended my PhD thesis (title: Next Generation Access Networks: Strategies for Municipal Intervention). It was the final step in a little over 6 years effort.
These were exciting years, I can tell you. Next to my doctoral degree, I worked on developing my freelance business, and tried as much as humanly possible to be a good husband to a wonderful wife and a good dad to two beautiful, smart kids. It wasn’t easy but the people around me – especially the important ones – made it feel achievable.
So, 6.5 years after, the PhD is behind me, I have lots of productive time free again :-), and I am fortunate to be working with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry and to be involved in projects that challenge common business stereotypes and traditional market perspectives.
I want to keep one final note for the blog. The last two years, I faced rough times and things got worse last summer. As a result I haven’t been as loyal as I would like to be to this blog and ended up writing practically only once or twice per month. Even so, the subscriptions and site visits stayed close to what they used to be in the past with some overall drop but not dramatic. The outlook is much better than I’d ever expect it to be. I want to thank you all for that. This is a serious morale boost. I promise to be in full shape soon.
Because (to paraphrase Arnold), I am back!
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