Research is fuzzy word in this bubble. I've seen people crafting their own tiny metric: twitter liveness, github activity, size of source code, website quality.

Research is fuzzy word in this bubble. I've seen people crafting their own tiny metric: twitter liveness, github activity, size of source code, website quality. White paper reading (I skimmed through a few, it felt like marketing speach most of the time). It only feels solid for newbs who never designed a system or seen math above HS level.