--- title: After a project description: Decisions lingering in the background --- ![burger-icon](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/burger-icon.svg) [![Kourosh Dini - Homepage](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/logos/kourosh-logo.svg)](https://www.kouroshdini.com) ![close-icon](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/close-icon.svg) - [Blog page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog) - [Podcast page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/podcast) - [Music page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/music) - [Courses & Books page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/courses-and-books) - [Psychoanalysis page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/psy) - [About page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/about) - [Contact page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/contact) - [Waves of Focus page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/waves-of-focus) ![Search](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/search-icon.svg) [![at-icon](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/at-icon.svg)](mailto:kmdini@gmail.com) [Return to Blog](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog) # After a project May 29, 2020 ![](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/blog%20image.webp) [Releasing a book](https://www.beingproductive.org/2020/05/organizing-your-ideas-with-devonthink-series-introduction-1-of-6/) is an odd experience. After a long period of steady work, with no real deadline other than my own desire to move on to the next thing, it’s done. I flip a few levers, push a few buttons, inevitably realize I forget something, scramble to do that, and then… well, I guess it’s done. Of course, there’s follow up, making sure that things are running smoothly, hoping that it’s well received, and the like. But it’s done. And the specter of a next project lingers in the background. 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