Interesting! While PHDing, I did my best work after accumulating a large bench of tractable ideas and a large bench of interesting ideas, and then subconsciously searching all NxM pairs to see if they were bridgeable- (this bridging step started to feel pretty magical as it worked)
Ah- although, much of the bench of feasible ideas came from reading papers, and then replicating them, which is much more efficient at picking actually feasible ideas than having them myself
Interesting! While PHDing, I did my best work after accumulating a large bench of tractable ideas and a large bench of interesting ideas, and then subconsciously searching all NxM pairs to see if they were bridgeable- (this bridging step started to feel pretty magical as it worked)
Ah- although, much of the bench of feasible ideas came from reading papers, and then replicating them, which is much more efficient at picking actually feasible ideas than having them myself