I reference Said Achmiz’s post specifically, because his post has an elaboration on Alicorn’s approach, where he considers what the various approaches he’s researched reveal about the structure of the underlying system and combines that with his background knowledge to improve the improvisation step.
In my case, I used my (admittedly limited) background knowledge of the behavior of wood to try to determine what the most important considerations were when choosing the screw type. In this case, it was the diameter of the solid root, and whether undersizing the hole would place undue strain on the board.
Just to be clear, I think you might mean Alicorn’s SDI approach?
I reference Said Achmiz’s post specifically, because his post has an elaboration on Alicorn’s approach, where he considers what the various approaches he’s researched reveal about the structure of the underlying system and combines that with his background knowledge to improve the improvisation step.
In my case, I used my (admittedly limited) background knowledge of the behavior of wood to try to determine what the most important considerations were when choosing the screw type. In this case, it was the diameter of the solid root, and whether undersizing the hole would place undue strain on the board.