{"id":28319,"date":"2026-03-29T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28319"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:48:19","slug":"research-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28319","title":{"rendered":"Research focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed in research that one of the most difficult things is establishing the right scope. There is a great temptation to take on everything at once.<\/p>\n<p>When I start a project, I&#8217;m like a kid in a candy store. There are so many directions, and I want to go into all of them!<\/p>\n<p>But eventually, as I keep working on the plan, I realize why less is more. If you go in every direction at once, you are not really able to go very far.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t just need to find the right research questions. You also need to have the right research focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed in research that one of the most difficult things is establishing the right scope. There is a great temptation to take on everything at once. When I start a project, I&#8217;m like a kid in a candy store. There are so many directions, and I want to go into all of them! But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research focus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28320,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions\/28320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}