My hope for my personal work is that nibbling away at the mystery with ‘prosaic engineering work ’ will make the problem clearer such that profound insights will be easier to generate. I think in science generally it is a good heuristic to follow that when no clear theory exists, and gathering more data is an option, then go gather the data. Also, use engineering to build better tools with which to gather new data.
My hope for my personal work is that nibbling away at the mystery with ‘prosaic engineering work ’ will make the problem clearer such that profound insights will be easier to generate. I think in science generally it is a good heuristic to follow that when no clear theory exists, and gathering more data is an option, then go gather the data. Also, use engineering to build better tools with which to gather new data.
Oh yeah, I totally agree with this. Will edit into the piece.