Carew's Dictum (not a law)

I formerly published this orally and all too often, as Carew's Law:

Ah fuck 'em; We are gonna try it anyway.

Of course, this is not a law, but rather more a heuristic, a guidance rule that applies mostly in making something new or novel to you-- that is, a dictum, not a law.

More mature, "wise" folks know that most things that one thinks to try have already been tried and found wanting in various ways. However (importantly) sometimes trying something (again) and observing closely allows a bright and creative person to form an hypothesis regarding what may be going wrong and to improvise something to improve the solution in some small way (or ways).

Doing that repeatedly sometimes results in a modified solution that is workable, where the original was indeed not worth trying in the economic sense of yielding a direct pay off.

You don't know what you do not know, until you take some action which yields learning. Often enough, the learning that results is worth the extra trial (or trials).

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF); let's try it anyway.

...followed by learning, modification, and re-try, is precisely how human progress is commonly made. OTOH, it is also the case that quite often it turns out that modification and re-trial does not result in improvement, or the small improvement gain is not worth the candle it costs, so to speak. I say that bias to action-- take your own chances and pay your own dues-- is still the best policy; especially so if you are a maker, engaged in making something.