Dear Fellow Discoverer’s, Just a quick note to update you on the Architecture of Scientific Discovery blog post series. You’ve been patient! But let’s just say there are a lot of “lost log entries” from this series. The old unpublished posts are now ready to put up on the site. Here’s your “Quickstart” guide for …
The Architecture of Scientific Discovery (ASD) is my framework for understanding all the levers and you knobs you can pull to produce scientific discoveries in your own work. The Architecture of Scientific Discovery is different, but works with the scientific method. The scientific method focuses on how to create valid, rigorous, reproducible observations and predictions …
In our ideal imagination someone would always be able to give us an exact game plan to achieve our dreams, full of steps we know exactly how to do. That kind of recipe would be comforting and make us more confident. I can’t give you that. But what I can give you is a mental …
If we have the choice between being successful now or successful 10 years from now, most of us would choose to do it now. It’s a no brainer. We’re impatient by nature and like to enjoy good things as soon as possible. The point is: we prefer to take the more direct route. Scientific discovery …
Just imagine you make a scientific discovery. Really stop and feel that for a moment. Imagine the person closest to you is talking to you right after the public announcement that confirms your discovery. Are they smiling at you and are you smiling back? Is your heart racing happily? Would you laugh, feel excited, have …
I’ll make you a deal. I will give you one million dollars if you are the first person to bring me an authentic, Trendel-made, lime green pogificator and post proof to my website that you have an original one by the last Friday in December. Easy, right? It might be. Or it might not. Who …
There’s a hidden catch to reading inspirational stories about individuals. Reading them makes you feel humans can do anything. Reading them can also make you feel like, any human but you can do anything. It’s a paradox hidden inside reading the stories that has to do with the details. The more details we read the …
When is the last time you were “in the zone”, burning through a task with clarity? When were you so focused that being self-conscious about things like “confidence”, “discipline”, or “rigor” would have felt silly? You were just getting the task done. Not thinking about how to get it done. Being able to get something …
If I told you there was a study that found what actions you take for the next 10 minutes determines whether or not you will make a scientific discovery in your life…how would you spend that time? How does thinking about the impact of what your doing right now on your discovery potential make you …
The hardest part of sharing scientific discovery skills is giving good examples. The pros of using real world examples: • Your readers learn how skills played out in real life. • Your readers have examples they can explore further. • You readers will find examples in some topics fascinating. The cons of using real world …