Writing a paper or dissertation can be very hard. I have had several students going through what they experienced as a daunting challenge. When asking for advise, I used to tell them that I, too, struggled. And I shared bits and pieces how I managed. Last week I finally wrote up those pieces as a whole. TLDR: My main advise is to work in time-boxed writing blocks. In each block, you stick to only one writing mode....
TLDR: I created the GitHub repo contract-versions to show the importance of version control and diffs to non-developers. Sometimes finding the right example helps a lot. Even more so when it is visible. It makes things clear and people get it. More than once I find myself explaining the importance of version control and diffs to non-developers. The concepts are important not only for programming code but to many more areas such as datasets and machine learning models....