Problem Before Method
Research Thinking · Minimal Abstract
Original slogan
Start from the problem, not the method.
Reading The dark gray mass is the real bottleneck: the part of the world that resists easy progress. Blue method fragments hover above it, useful but not yet grounded; the green line begins at the problem itself and only then reaches an amber verifier. The reading is that good research does not start by asking which fashionable method to use, but by locating the constraint that would matter if solved.