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Paper Collaboration

A graph of "Changes Remaining" versus "Time" for a paper. The curve trends downward until the first draft is completed, and then it periodically spikes back up as collaborators ask for changes. First Collaborator 1, then Collaborator 2, then Collaborator 1 again, and so on. The trend line has the label, "Hope this doesn't asymptotically reach zero".

Rapid progress occurred when one of the collaborators said, “Screw it!” and allowed the revision of the paper to continue without including their pet idea.

Published on January 25th, 2025 by Jeremy

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