Some of the best academic advice I ever got was "A paper is never really done, at some point you just have to set it free."
And yet...I find myself with a nearly-done paper that I just keep making more and more plots for! Someday I'll set it free, but not today, apparently.
nostr:npub1uw8g8f3g29gw8uxfcj5863rnc783xyk0alqm9mcsx3leut98dausxy88kr ouch, I feel you. Both on the advice and the actual letting go of papers...
nostr:npub1uw8g8f3g29gw8uxfcj5863rnc783xyk0alqm9mcsx3leut98dausxy88kr
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
PAUL VALERY
nostr:npub1uw8g8f3g29gw8uxfcj5863rnc783xyk0alqm9mcsx3leut98dausxy88kr "great artists ship" springs to mind ...
nostr:npub1uw8g8f3g29gw8uxfcj5863rnc783xyk0alqm9mcsx3leut98dausxy88kr
The problem is I set them free after the first or second draft because I am a lazy ass hack who hates to do rewrites!
nostr:npub1uw8g8f3g29gw8uxfcj5863rnc783xyk0alqm9mcsx3leut98dausxy88kr Same with creative projects!
nostr:npub1uw8g8f3g29gw8uxfcj5863rnc783xyk0alqm9mcsx3leut98dausxy88kr I have heard similarly "Art is never done— It is merely abandoned.”
For me, 80% of the thing is done in the first 50% of effort. And then the next 49% of effort gets me to 90-95% of “perfect.” And that's good enough for release, but it's a hard thing for me to learn
It's too hot and too Friday to keep going with paper edits. Someday I'll actually submit this paper... really...
