Mark comments, ‘This is one of the sad things about the computer world right now: everybody knows better, and hardly anybody seems willing to do the work.’

and yet…

‘This is one of the great things about computer science right now: you can walk in off the street, roll up your sleeves, and with a little hard work and fortitude you can be right at the research frontier.’

I’m finding this to be true, having turned my attention to what academia has to say about navigation and forging through the literature. But for practitioners it’s not easy; one must find time, access journals, decode researcher-speak, and still have energy left to build on what’s been learned.