What makes research get adopted: important problems, proper evals, and usability
srchvrs · x · 2026-10-27
srchvrs distills what makes research matter: solve important problems (keep asking stakeholders what's important), sweat quality, plus modern additions — do proper evals with the right metrics and baselines, and make your work easy to use. He frames it as Cal Newport's "Slow Productivity" plus Hamming's "You and Your Research." Slides add: pick good metrics, talk to your audience, don't rush, and make work easy to use.
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