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Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are partners. [[Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time.::highlight]] Managing your schedule and daily habits well is a necessary component to free up the practical and creative capacity to make great art.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
Assumptions of balanced effort and presumed trust are no longer guaranteed in a post-LLM world. Sloppypasta creates a compounding negative feedback loop where the sender forfeits learning and credibility while the recipient burns effort and loses trust. Receiving raw AI output feels *bad* due to the cognitive dissonance of having these assumptions violated.
Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people
stopsloppypasta.ai
More to the point, they [jittered strip plots or distribution heat maps] make more *visual sense* than box plots, so audiences grasp them in seconds instead of minutes, and they’re less prone to misinterpretation. **Ultimately, this means that using these chart types instead of box plots substantially improves the odds that your audience will understand and act on your distribution-based insights.**
I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
Nick Desbarats
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