Thread by @raulpacheco

My life post-pandemic is definitely going to be:
- less travel
- fewer academic conferences
- fewer commitments
- more Work-From-Home
- more intense in-person experiences (workshops, short modules, etc).

I don’t want to live in a world with crushing commutes/too many cars.

I’m also done with living out of a suitcase.

It’s amazing how the love and care of your dear friends leads them to ask important questions that you only ponder during a pandemic.

My dear friend @AWutich asked me @ #AAG2018 why did I travel so much. At the time I didn’t get it

But one year later, I am floored at how much more widely read and discussed my work is, and I’m not even attending or presenting at conferences!

I travelled a lot partly for fieldwork, partly to establish myself as an authority in my field (giving keynote talks, etc.)

But I’m much more senior now (as a professor) and my position in the field and the literature is more or less well established. I don’t need as much travel anymore.

And now I have time to write all the notes from all te multi-country fieldwork I have done!

Lesson learned.