Interesting that you think that. I don't see it as humble-brag, more a defense for a style of collaboration whose contributions are not typically recognized or

Interesting that you think that. I don't see it as humble-brag, more a defense for a style of collaboration whose contributions are not typically recognized or are difficult to notice as such. I do agree he goes too far in discounting styles of contribution that are not to his preference. I think both styles are important, someone needs to contribute the components for synthesis after all, and that requires lots of exploration. Which comes by people playing with ideas for themselves. It's understandable though, that one would write a biased defense of an important and personally favored but less visible contribution style.