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Randy's Method of Discovery

September 28th, 2009

We’ve been successful in bringing a number of medical products to market. We thought it might be useful to some to share the way we go about solving problems to produce useful devices and methods.

We consider it important to keep things simple and to avoid, as one former collaborator described it, “paralysis by analysis”. In other words, to avoid getting lost in mountains of minutiae and losing sight of the obvious. I’ve often said, only half in jest, that I protect my ignorance as a pianist protects his hands. By focusing excessively on what has gone before, one sometimes runs the risk of becoming persuaded by the apparent impossibility of certain approaches or being lured by the promise of tantalizing findings leading ultimately down dead end pathways.

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