Comment by Scarblac
So he has to take time to write up those experiments he was doing as exploration, and nobody will read them because who wants to spend time reading about failed experiments.
People will still want to do their own exploring to get a feel for a problem.
> who wants to spend time reading about a failed experiment.
A negative result is *not* a failed experiment. Mapping out the negative space is very valuable if the hypotheses being tested are worthwhile ones.