If you have an emergency where you don’t know what to do about it and you have time pressure, then you might have to get better at philosophy because philosophy is what clarifies channels of influence and opens up new channels of influence. Getting back to “concrete” things is good for many reasons, but versions of that which give up on philosophy are throwing out the most likely hope; the philosophy that happens by itself might be too slow. Like how sometimes in software projects, roughly no amount of programming energy will help because you have the wrong theory of the program, and everything you currently know how to do is the equivalent of writing a bunch of special case rules like “5+8=13″ and “(\d)+(\d*)0 = $2$1”.
If you have an emergency where you don’t know what to do about it and you have time pressure, then you might have to get better at philosophy because philosophy is what clarifies channels of influence and opens up new channels of influence. Getting back to “concrete” things is good for many reasons, but versions of that which give up on philosophy are throwing out the most likely hope; the philosophy that happens by itself might be too slow. Like how sometimes in software projects, roughly no amount of programming energy will help because you have the wrong theory of the program, and everything you currently know how to do is the equivalent of writing a bunch of special case rules like “5+8=13″ and “(\d)+(\d*)0 = $2$1”.