- take on aggressive project. a distributed operating system, a novel static optimization technique, some kind of concurrency model, a lower bound for an unsolv

- take on aggressive project. a distributed operating system, a novel static optimization technique, some kind of concurrency model, a lower bound for an unsolved problem - find good resources to work with, or at least to give regular input so I don't end up wandering off into the weeds - try to take it as far as I can, until its obviously going to fail - start with another