Yes, that is a good heuristic too, though I feel like one that does not conflict at all with the one proposed in the OP. Seem to me like they are complementary.
I think Richard Hamming would say something like “Identify the important problems of your field and then tackle those and make sure that you can actually solve them. It wouldn’t do any good thinking about the most important problems all the time that you then cannot solve.” This also seems to not contradict the OP and seems to be a technique that can be combined with the one in the OP.
Yes, that is a good heuristic too, though I feel like one that does not conflict at all with the one proposed in the OP. Seem to me like they are complementary.
I think Richard Hamming would say something like “Identify the important problems of your field and then tackle those and make sure that you can actually solve them. It wouldn’t do any good thinking about the most important problems all the time that you then cannot solve.” This also seems to not contradict the OP and seems to be a technique that can be combined with the one in the OP.