Once in a while, one stumbles on a random blog post. With a ton of valuable information. If you're in academia, this one might be useful.

Below we offer numerous guidlines, hints, suggestions and strong(!) opinions on how to effectively communicate the results of your research. Communicating your results effectively is an invaluable part of doing science, and one that requires considerable effort and experience. Of course, communication is ultimately a very personal matter; accordingly, personal styles differ widely and you may disagree with some points below. But even if you do, the guidelines will at least encourage you to think of a good reason why you disagree, thereby serving their original purpose yet again, namely to

encourage you to devote a lot of thought to communicating science effectively.

Implementing some of these suggestions may require huge amounts of time and effort. Nevertheless, don't shirk these! Just as in a market economy,

only polished products sell well !

The reader of your paper or the audience of your talk (=customer, buyer) expects and deserves to see only the final, optimized product (the history of its development seldom interests them). If your product is too far from perfect, they'll rapidly stop paying attention.

This matches very well the thinking of my last advisor...

However, this sometimes led to breaking the known adage saying "perfect is the enemy of good"... once too often, we did not ship because the product did not reach the standards he set for himself.

Academics would probably benefit from doing an internship in a company where one has stricter deadlines on when to ship.