anchor.diff:  > "My greatest achievement?"
   > He looked around his workshop, looking at hundreds of artwork he had created…
   > "This…"
  -> He did not point at any sculpting he made. He raised both his hand, and showed me his palms.
  +> He did not point at any sculpture he made. He raised both his hand, and showed me his palms.
   
   For an artisan, achievement is not really the end product. Or at least it was not always the end product. For this one particular wood sculptor, it is all about the process in the middle the new discoveries and the steps he took to create numerous work of art. The small iteration he added to his experience, the knowledge he gained in order to determine how to navigate an unknown wood block, the intuition he had acquired when every piece of wood reacted to his hammering, his snap judgements. And eventually, his expertise.
   
  -As a researcher, I don't think it's the research result that are the main achievement. But rather, the acquired experience of it. Research results are just like an artists' artworks. It's like a piece of music, a paintings, and a sculpting. In the end, it's just objects. It could be timeless, and it could be meaningless. But In the end, it's just a vessel for the artists' self development and journey of discovery. 
  +As a researcher, I don't think it's the research result that are the main achievement. But rather, the acquired experience of it. Research results are just like an artists' artworks. It's like a piece of music, a paintings, and sculptures. In the end, it's just objects. It could be timeless, and it could be meaningless. But In the end, it's just a vessel for the artists' self development and journey of discovery. 
   
   The same could be said for a researcher. We're artists of our crafts. The main achievement a researcher can get, is always about the experience, the knowledge we gain in order to navigate an unknown phenomenon, the intuition we had acquired when interviews and observation data is presented to our eyes, the snap judgement we have when we're in the field, and the attention to new details in each every research project. 
   
  
positive.code: In his point of view, I get it. The hammers, sets of chisels do serve different purposes. Some sculptors invested a lot to obtain such tools, in hopes to make their craft more refined, and easy to work with. But it's really easy for one to be distracted by those "new features and abilities". 
  
  I mean, it is clearly possible that in his world, there are lots of people trying to sell better tools, better chisels, better wood-scraper to him. Even the art market where he supplied his work, sell those tools as well. I asked about his tools, and it is to my surprise, that he only have a few. Probably just a couple of hammers, and 3 types of chisels.
  And yet, he crafted magnificent, and well-detailed sculpting, big and small.
  
  That's what I learned about tools. A vast array of tools in our toolbox may help us to refine our work. But it's important to remember that we should not be distracted by it. A sculptor who focuses solely on obtaining better tools, believing that it will increase his productivity, or ability, often got stuck just at that. His faith and attention now is narrowed to the tools, forgetting the first reason he's there in the first place: Sculpting, or creating work of arts. 
  
  
negative.code: Research methods, toolkits, and sandboxes are just like a sculptor's hammers and chisels. The point of it is not to debate or to collect it, but to use it, to familiarize ourselves with it, to fully support us in our research vision. But eventually, most of the time, it's more about working with what we have at the first place. Know what you have, and more forward. Remember: Limitation of tools shouldn't stop you on creating high quality research.
  
  ### On vision and execution
  > "Yes, before I start, I usually imagine how a sculpture would look like in the end, but to blindly believe that it should be exactly the way we imagined is sometimes a folly."
  
  In every art discipline, be it music, visual arts, or performance arts, there are at least three aspects that are the main focus: Conception, Execution, and Perception. 
  Conception is the realm of initial ideas and vision. A production of art work is the result of a conception process. A creative process that usually involve imagination, interpretation of initial stimuli. The ideal form of an art work, a world without constraints. 
  