Reaching out directly to experts in a field is a valuable method for gaining deeper insight after initial research.

“and of course the other thing I do is I'm just kind of a pushy little prick sometimes like I just don't hesitate to reach out to people you're the same way like every week you're emailing the author of some paper and and honestly I think that they never view it as pushy even though we feel like oh are we being too obnoxious by bugging them but the reality of it is they love it this is their life's work there's like one other geek out there who wants to know everything about their life's work”