Rigor does not mean more detail.
- Rigor does not mean more detail.
- Rigor means that the closer someone looks at the answer, the more compelling it becomes.
- Sometimes very simple conclusions can be enormously clarifying: inescapable, obvious, once you see it you can't unsee it.
- In some cases, the simple words of "not yet" are extremely clarifying.
- That you don't need to know the answer to some fuzzy, hard to distill thing saves you tons of time.
- You know you're getting closer to rigor and clarity as things get simpler, not more complex.