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Academia is failing to adapt. It used to be that their journals were the only place to learn about technological breakthroughs. Now, I quickly skim the paper and go straight to the source code or data. A publication might be one of the least effective ways to gain scientific impact, second to which is word of mouth.

Also, it's too hard to publish and academics are too hostile. These people are government funded and reject work for things like mentioning Palestine. I've had multiple papers automatically rejected even for pre-publication. Even when I have jumped through all these hoops, it has no more credibility than a blog post to the average person. In fact, most people cannot even read my published work. They look at it for a few seconds, squint, and then say, "Cool."

All of this and the vast majority of publications are not even replicable. I've made do with uploading code or instructions on how to replicate work through git and then make a blog post about it.

I still create papers but they're for myself. When I complete some dense scientific project, a paper is a great format to onboard me onto it a few months later. I'm most concerned about indexing the work, but I find that online archiving tools are the best bet since journals are behind paywalls and are subject to retractions.