I don't need novelty.
from Use your own deliverables.
(3) I don't need novelty.
When I show my work to others, they often ask me where novelty (patentability) lies. But I can tell them that I don't know anything about that (laughs).
Novelty or not, I use this. It doesn't have to have a single novelty, it just has to be useful to me.
If there are 100 novelties, but none of them are useful, what good are they? Who would use them? That's why we don't need novelty.
Leave the search for novelty to the researchers. I only need to be able to do something really useful.
Of course, after pursuing convenience to oneself in this way, one sometimes happens to achieve results that no one else has done yet.
In other words, they were not pursuing novelty, but they have acquired novelty. This is a convenient novelty.
Needless to say, the destructive power at that time is extraordinary.
I was looking at this and thinking.
There are two kinds of novelty.
novelty created as a side effect of trying to create something useful.
Novelty created in an attempt to create novelty.
Notation shaking Novelty for novelty's sake.
The former is a good one, but when we created a system that included it in the evaluation criteria, Incorrect KPI setting caused it to run amok!
If you set a strict numerical standard for evaluation, all researchers are smart enough to optimize their behavior accordingly.
This argument is that Usefulness to me should be a top priority.
Novelty and usefulness
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