tremendous waste of energy, effort, and resources doing research that does not need to be done or that is so poorly designed that it does not get us to where we want to go—really building new and usable knowledge
we do not do a good job of cumulating our research
We just do not do a good job of tying it all together
I believe very much in the value of getting people together, learning about new approaches to common problems, making connections with colleagues who work in different settings.