See my responses elsewhere in this discussion. Simply put, he is closing down the project because to continue requires too much hard work and is boring and unin

See my responses elsewhere in this discussion. Simply put, he is closing down the project because to continue requires too much hard work and is boring and uninteresting. It is not that he has found an answer to his investigations and so he can move on and here are the lessons learned. Yet I suspect that the intent of what he may have wanted to say is that final sentence above. But that's not what he said. I'll say it again, there is no problem with unfinished work, if what you were trying to achieve has been completed. But please, don't then say that you won't complete the work your doing because to do so would require hard work and it's just boring and tedious. This is what reflects negatively on you. If you have achieved your goal then just say that and show what has been learned from the exercise. If you would like it to be continued but can't do so for whatever reason, which you do not have to state, then offer it to anyone else who might be able to take it on. You never know, you might get some takers. This reflects positively on you.