# Self Publishing My Thesis

**Published by:** [Continuations](https://continuations.com/)
**Published on:** 2012-10-22
**Categories:** vanity, thesis, mit
**URL:** https://continuations.com/self-publishing-my-thesis

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In 1999, which now feels like a very long time ago, I finished my PhD thesis at MIT. I had started working on it following my general exams in 1996 but promptly got very busy co-founding a company (the now defunct W3Health – a story for another day). Running a startup during the week, working on a dissertation on weekends and commuting between Boston and New York is not something I would recommend to anybody. In fact, the acknowledgments to my thesis conclude with:Most of all, I would like to thank my wife Susan Danziger who is an inspiration for everything I do and whose patience finally ran out and made me finish this thesis.There were many times when I thought I should simply call it quits on the thesis, but the German in me couldn’t let go. And thanks to Susan giving me a big push it got done. Thanks again! In retrospect I have been happy to have finished my thesis, which takes the form of three separate papers. My only regret has been that I didn’t have the time to polish the papers sufficiently to submit them for publication. As a result they have been rotting in the archives at MIT. A while back I finally decided to get a scan and then paid a firm to convert them to HTML. So now many years later I have published my thesis online. Over the next few weeks I will re-read each paper and publish a brief summary as a blog post. If you are curious you can go ahead and start reading now. P.S. I have already discovered and fixed some conversion errors but surely there are more.

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