I think I’ve done similar explorations as you’ve mentioned and have been curious to develop a framework of how to go about this more generally; specifically I get lost in your first example’s preservation of structure (I think this is shallow vs. deep dives, could be wrong about the terminology.)
To my understanding, the overall objective is “to get a feel for what is out there.” After running through it a couple times, I think I see a general pattern of...
Getting in front of you “what is out there” - 100 companies who had 50% of the non-financial assets (NFA) - pulling up the nature articles - locating the college catalogue
“to get a feel,” looking at the things that you aren’t familiar with, interested in - asking questions about the nature of the NFA that don’t initially make sense - reading all the titles and any abstracts which sounded novel/interesting
The only difference with the 1st example (capital assets) is that this iterated a bit; top 100 companies had 50% of the NFA --> annual reports of companies --> showing their capital assets (this is the completion of “getting it in front of you”, now you can start “getting a feel.”)
Is this correct or am I way off? This CIG seems like it’d be helpful for what I imagine your sequence “Gears which turn the world” would’ve used as far as research methods go. Either way, this seems super exciting, thanks for the post!
I think I’ve done similar explorations as you’ve mentioned and have been curious to develop a framework of how to go about this more generally; specifically I get lost in your first example’s preservation of structure (I think this is shallow vs. deep dives, could be wrong about the terminology.)
To my understanding, the overall objective is “to get a feel for what is out there.” After running through it a couple times, I think I see a general pattern of...
Getting in front of you “what is out there”
- 100 companies who had 50% of the non-financial assets (NFA)
- pulling up the nature articles
- locating the college catalogue
“to get a feel,” looking at the things that you aren’t familiar with, interested in
- asking questions about the nature of the NFA that don’t initially make sense
- reading all the titles and any abstracts which sounded novel/interesting
The only difference with the 1st example (capital assets) is that this iterated a bit; top 100 companies had 50% of the NFA --> annual reports of companies --> showing their capital assets (this is the completion of “getting it in front of you”, now you can start “getting a feel.”)
Is this correct or am I way off? This CIG seems like it’d be helpful for what I imagine your sequence “Gears which turn the world” would’ve used as far as research methods go. Either way, this seems super exciting, thanks for the post!
This sounds right.
Appreciate the reply, thank you!