I’ve always liked Hamming’s famous double-barrelled question: what are the most important problems in your field, and why aren’t you working on one of them? It’s a great way to shake yourself up. But it may be overfitting a bit. It might be at least as useful to ask yourself: if you could take a year off to work on something that probably wouldn’t be important but would be really interesting, what would it be?
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Digging this paragraph. Not something I follow that often myself, but I have a lot of things that feel both very interesting and very important, so I’m doing that.
(emphasis mine)
Digging this paragraph. Not something I follow that often myself, but I have a lot of things that feel both very interesting and very important, so I’m doing that.