Yes, the culture of rewarding results and not the path to achieving the results is a tough one to break. Your article is a refeshing start in this direction.
I agree! Another aspect of the messy middle is not wanting to spend much time focusing on the “failures”, so time that could be spent logging and reflecting is often skipped to move on to the next thing to try. In hindsight, with more reflection and sharing even the mundane learnings, we may see more breakthroughs and reduce the amount of repeated experiments/works that don’t get shared. I sometimes wonder how many other people have tried what I’m trying and failed, so they just didn’t share it with the world?
Yes, the culture of rewarding results and not the path to achieving the results is a tough one to break. Your article is a refeshing start in this direction.
That means a lot! Thank you!!
I agree! Another aspect of the messy middle is not wanting to spend much time focusing on the “failures”, so time that could be spent logging and reflecting is often skipped to move on to the next thing to try. In hindsight, with more reflection and sharing even the mundane learnings, we may see more breakthroughs and reduce the amount of repeated experiments/works that don’t get shared. I sometimes wonder how many other people have tried what I’m trying and failed, so they just didn’t share it with the world?
A great insight, given so much of the work we do in research ends up unpublished....