From Misbehaving, by Richard Thaler, pg 178-179. The ontographology cards I’m developing are intended to bridge this gap between unproductive abstraction and overly challenging detail:
Interdisciplinary meetings, especially those with high-level agendas (reduce poverty, solve climate change) tend to be disappointing, even when the attendees are luminaries, because academics don’t like to talk about research in the abstract—they want to see actual scientific results. But if scientists from one field start presenting their research findings in the manner that the colleagues in their field expect, the scientists from other disciplines are soon overwhelmed by technical details they do not understand, or bored by theoretical exercises they find pointless.
Mark Carrigan 