Earlier this week I had started to think about how to figure out when quantum computing will break the cryptographic patterns used in cryptocurrency. It might be time to write some code and share it on GitHub that would break the cryptographic keys used in wallets. That is one of things that has been starting to percolate around in my thoughts recently. I’m trying to figure out the best ways to spend some of my time each day. Intellectually, I know the best possible perfect path forward would be to begin again with the three-folder academic path. Put simply I would start to work on three different research papers for future publication storing the idea and ultimately the final paper in the folder. The goal being to finish papers and retire the folder to start a new one so that I always have three open writing projects geared exclusively toward writing academic papers for the express goal of publication. I know that is what I should do and that it would be easy enough to manage. I could even digitally manage the project using my Overleaf account to manage the manuscripts in LaTeX format.

Knowing the right path to potentially take on a daily basis is not enough to actually make your feet start taking the right steps along that path. Sometimes you can see the future path and you just don’t elect to walk that way forward. Maybe my strong preference to work on research notes compared to complete academic papers is what had unfolded into where we are today. Shamefully the last updates I made in Overleaf were 10 months ago. That probably lines up pretty well with where my writing efforts slowed down. I can see a handful of papers in that projects folder that are in various states of repair, preparation, or a few that were completed.

It looks like my Overleaf subscription runs until December 19^th. I should probably take advantage of the current subscription and try to deeply consider what three paper topics are work considering and building up into final products.