I wish you would see what I see:.

About five years ago I decided to start all over again because I didn't like the way my life was going, and five years later I seem to face a similar challenge. Let me explain...

I went back to the academic world because the software industry didn't seem to have the right answers for what software development should be (from my perspective) and I thought I could contribute more from the theoretical point of view than from the trenches...

Five years later, I can assure you that the researchers/academics are as lost as the practitioners...

Sure, I've contributed some ideas that might seem interesting for some folks, I've given academic workshop/conference/summer school talks, but all in all, I can tell you that academics are orders of magnitude behind the real software engineering practice...

I've seen colleagues graduate just to have their PhD degrees, others just to call themselves doctors and sell to big companies, and worst, others just accept their destiny and start teaching basic programming courses...

Although my motivation is really low (and almost nobody but my family cares whether I finish my thesis or not), I'm going to try and finish my work this year:.

Were you ever alive?.
I wish I could see what you see.