I don't know if you are familiar with Donald Stokes' four quadrant model for research that he outlined in Pasteur's Quadrant https://archive.org/details/pasteursquadrant00stok He left the lower left quadrant blank but suggests it's where pure observation and categorization starts. He offers Roger Torey Peterson as a possible avatar, but I think Linnaeus is better. Cataloging and structuring phenomena is the essential start to any scientific endeavor, certainly as important as theory or solution recipes since it forms the basis for both.
Glushko's "Discipline of Organizing" is one of my favorites. https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Research_and_Information_Literacy/The_Discipline_of_Organizing_4e_(Glushko)
He also created a version for kids:
https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/organizing4kids/
I don't know if you are familiar with Donald Stokes' four quadrant model for research that he outlined in Pasteur's Quadrant https://archive.org/details/pasteursquadrant00stok He left the lower left quadrant blank but suggests it's where pure observation and categorization starts. He offers Roger Torey Peterson as a possible avatar, but I think Linnaeus is better. Cataloging and structuring phenomena is the essential start to any scientific endeavor, certainly as important as theory or solution recipes since it forms the basis for both.
This seems like a highly optimal approach for taking over (sorting out, optimizing, harmonizing, etc) the world, if one was interested in such things.