the point was about the paper thing, not about the joy of writing one's thoughts down or publishing in the public domain. most of my work gets published these d

the point was about the paper thing, not about the joy of writing one's thoughts down or publishing in the public domain. most of my work gets published these days - code, designs, teaching, translations... actually prefer it to keeping backups of obscure random. but of course, people sure do release a lot of cool stuff on github and where not. one of my repos has ±300 stars and going, thousands of papers are anyway near in actual impact. BUT... the topic is not about releasing stuff in the wild. opensource being a vehicle for research is outside the scope of present discussion. the incentives and the barrier to writing what is called an academic paper is. wild stuff does not bring impact factor, and does not get you closer to a PhD in the practical sense. the whole paper thing is intended for sharing purposes, yet it keeps people away very successfully. its a system, not a welcoming one, that all I'm saying.