As someone who has also struggled with similar issues, although in a different context than writing papers, I found some of the answers here helpful and could imagine some of them as good “tactical advice” to go along with cultural norms. I also ended up looking through Google’s SRE book as recommended in Gwern’s answer and benefited from it even though it’s focused on software infrastructure. In particular, the idea of treating knowledge production as a complex system helped knock me out of my “just be careful” mindset, which I think is often one of the harder things to scale. Of course, YMMV.
As someone who has also struggled with similar issues, although in a different context than writing papers, I found some of the answers here helpful and could imagine some of them as good “tactical advice” to go along with cultural norms. I also ended up looking through Google’s SRE book as recommended in Gwern’s answer and benefited from it even though it’s focused on software infrastructure. In particular, the idea of treating knowledge production as a complex system helped knock me out of my “just be careful” mindset, which I think is often one of the harder things to scale. Of course, YMMV.
Thanks, really appreciate the references!