Research

A question can be useful before it is answerable. Keep it near the work. Let later entries change its edges. Write down the question before collecting more material. Mark what would count as a change, not only what would count as confirmation.…

Some questions resist the first answer because the first answer is too eager. I returned to one question three times, each time with a different kind of material: a statistic, a conversation, and a long silence in the record. First return: the…