We are in a specific time where evidence is all that matters. We analyse and over analyse things to juice things as much as possible. We are analysts.<p>I don't know what the opposite of that is - maybe, a creationist, constructivist? Whatever that is called, are we going far away from that? Because to me creation of new things calls for breaking rules. Of course we need to be aware of what the rules are in order to break them sometimes. That's where analysis comes handy. But too much analysing stuff may have hampered our abilites to create beautiful stuff.<p>One example that comes to mind:
In college a Design and Analysis of Algorithms class rarely teaches design, rather it spells out popular algorithms and teaches us to analyse them.<p>In other engineering disciplines, for example take electrical engineering, we do more analysis than design something from scratch (maybe except some top schools like MIT).<p>One answer to that maybe that hobbyists and enthusiastic people will always find out how to design on their own after learning the analysis part. And that is okay. But why not give others the opportunity of tasting what design feels like. Maybe most people don't try because they don't know what it is actually like to design or create?<p>What are your thoughts on this? You can belong to any field and still feel like this?