Overcoming a fear of writing

Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by yummyfajitas on Thursday March 26, 2009 @01:13PM (#533756)

I'm often faced with the following choice: write a paper about Algorithm 1.0, or try to figure out Algorithm 1.1? Or perhaps tweak the code to make it cleaner/faster/more general?

Writing the paper usually loses.

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Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by ibsulon on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:19PM (#533974)

Write paper 1.0. Then work on 1.1. Then, instead of having one paper, you have two, and are that much closer to tenure. :)

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Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by yummyfajitas on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:51PM (#534033)

In theory, that is the optimal procedure. But writing code is so much more interesting right now.

It's my most productive form of procrastination.

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Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by scott_s on Thursday March 26, 2009 @02:36PM (#533887)

This is why deadlines can be good things.

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