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In "The Intellectual Production of Engineers," he used the metaphor "[Stack boxes on top.

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• Various terms are used to refer to concepts, such as abstraction, creating models (modelling (e.g. a system, etc.)), Finding Patterns, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
  • These words are Labeling for experience, so people who haven't experienced it won't get it.
  • I know it's impossible, but I'm forcing myself to explain it in words.
  • 上に積む.icon]The concept of [piling on.icons can only be acquired by water piling on.icons.

A more detailed expression is [Cumulative effect of ideas.

This "lower box" is first described in the storyline of the engineer's intellectual production techniques as being obtained through "information gathering"

• collect and arrange But not only that, there are boxes obtained by trial and error.

• Trial and error is hard to see.

• Often neglected because it is difficult to see, but important

• This means information obtained from "My experience" by trying it out for yourself.

• The emergence of a service that provides knowledge streamlined the collection from Already written knowledge.

• As a result, the importance of "Trial and error difficult to see" will increase even more.

  • Work to open up the forest of what has yet to be written.

• The higher the concept, the less likely it is to become obsolete.

• - [PDCA and error back propagation](/en/PDCA%20and%20error%20back%20propagation)

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