Research Distillation

• It can be incredibly satisfying, combining deep scientific understanding, empathy, and design to do justice to our research and lay bare beautiful insights.
• Distillation is also hard
• It’s tempting to think of explaining an idea as just putting a layer of polish on it, but good explanations often involve transforming the idea.
• This kind of refinement of an idea can take just as much effort and deep understanding as the initial discovery.
• We can’t solve Research Debt by having one person write a textbook