draft: [ thanks, miguel ]

[ just to say that this man is right. but also, as I said to others, finishing a thesis without a real plan of the future is like being dropped from the peloton: academia carries you, makes it easy to stay ‘in academia’ without taking too much of your energy; fall away from the pace, and you have to pedal (or perhaps, peddle) harder than any in the group just to pick up the back wheel once more. ]