The impression I get is that EY-2011 believes that he has already taken the necessary time to understand the relevant issues, questions, and problems and that his proposed solution is therefore unlikely to be improved upon by further up-front thinking about the problem, rather than by working on implementing the solution he has in mind and seeing what difficulties come up.
Whether that’s a change of attitude, IMHO, depends a lot on whether his initial standard for what counts as an adequate understanding of the relevant issues, questions, and problems was met, or whether it was lowered.
I’m not really sure what that initial standard was in the first place, so I have no idea which is the case. Nor am I sure it matters; presumably what matters more is whether the current standard is adequate.
The impression I get is that EY-2011 believes that he has already taken the necessary time to understand the relevant issues, questions, and problems and that his proposed solution is therefore unlikely to be improved upon by further up-front thinking about the problem, rather than by working on implementing the solution he has in mind and seeing what difficulties come up.
Whether that’s a change of attitude, IMHO, depends a lot on whether his initial standard for what counts as an adequate understanding of the relevant issues, questions, and problems was met, or whether it was lowered.
I’m not really sure what that initial standard was in the first place, so I have no idea which is the case. Nor am I sure it matters; presumably what matters more is whether the current standard is adequate.