anchor.diff:  ### On mistakes, trial and error
   > "Not every stone, wood, are the same. They can react differently even when you use the same tools. Learnings are made, not prepared for, just as those discoveries are found…"
   
  -He explained to me on how he created a statue of Wishnu out of a chunk of mahogany, and failed. The failed wood sculpting is left half-sculpted on the god's lower body, and then the wood cracks into two pieces. He made a mistake when trying to carve an opening with a flat-edge chisel. He didn't throw away the broken pieces, instead of pivoting into creating another sculpt, the torso of the god himself, and the lower body transformed into another block of wooden flowers.
  +He explained to me on how he created a statue of Wishnu out of a chunk of mahogany, and failed. The failed wood sculpture is left half-sculpted on the god's lower body, and then the wood cracks into two pieces. He made a mistake when trying to carve an opening with a flat-edge chisel. He didn't throw away the broken pieces, instead of pivoting into creating another sculpture, the torso of the god himself, and the lower body transformed into another block of wooden flowers.
   
   Just like research work. We dive into the process, and we found out that some of our tools and frameworks did not generate the kind of data we wanted. The interview guide we executed failed to dig deep into insights we're hoping for. It's normal. The artisan taught me, when failure in research arise, it's not wise to discard the result, or the ongoing approach. 
   
  
positive.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 sculpting 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. 
  
negative.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 sculpture, 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. 
  
  