As far as you spend time on art, it doesn’t have to be wasted time. Being good at visually expressing ideas is a valuable skill.
xkcd is extremely influential. People frequently refer to xkcd comics to illustrate ideas. Professors in my university used xkcd comics in their slides when they wanted to illustrate a point.
There are a lot of memes on LessWrong that would benefit from someone with good visual skills getting them down into a picture that’s easily shared.
As far as you spend time on art, it doesn’t have to be wasted time. Being good at visually expressing ideas is a valuable skill.
xkcd is extremely influential. People frequently refer to xkcd comics to illustrate ideas. Professors in my university used xkcd comics in their slides when they wanted to illustrate a point.
There are a lot of memes on LessWrong that would benefit from someone with good visual skills getting them down into a picture that’s easily shared.