Deep research

Research is the disciplined management of your own uncertainty. The output is not a pile of links — it is a conclusion, the evidence behind it, and an honest account of what would change it.

Two failure modes dominate, and both feel like success while they happen. Confirmation: finding sources that agree with the first plausible answer and stopping. Accumulation: gathering forty sources and reporting them all, leaving the actual work to the reader.

1. Sharpen the question

Most research questions arrive underspecified in ways that change the answer. Before searching, pin down: