What I’ve been doing for the #COVID19 crisis this past few weeks is compiling information. Literature review, compilation of existing efforts, and some coordination/outreach/technical writing work for a project to build & donate low-cost non-invasive ventilators.
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There are many things my method won't help with. I research things from behind a computer screen. My analyses won't include info that's proprietary, or tacit knowledge based on clinical or engineering experience. Reading and aggregating existing papers can't invent a vaccine.
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I normally will feel reluctance to do a lit review on a subject where the...natural categories? don't seem like things well captured in written form.
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E.g. surgery is hard to get a handle on this way. There's lots of publications, yes, but if you don't know anatomy in a 3d sense, you won't even know things like "surgery on this part and that part are similar because the parts are close in space."
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Over the years I've developed a sense of when "mere" reading can provide useful information and when it's kind of futile. I'm not naively going "everything can be solved by info aggregation." But I do honestly think *many* things can.
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sometimes just writing it down is just better. no shortcuts! automation is no substitute for execution!!!!
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