Twelve favorite problems
Hold a dozen open questions in mind and test what you read against them
Write down roughly twelve open-ended questions you actually care about and keep the list where you will see it. Test everything you read, watch or hear against those questions. Deciding what to save becomes close to automatic, and now and then it connects two fields that had nothing to do with each other. The idea comes from an account of how Richard Feynman worked. Rewrite the list as your interests move.
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Keep about a dozen open questions live in your head and test everything new against them, he suggests, crediting an account of how Richard Feynman worked. It doubles as the filter for deciding what is worth saving in the first place.
Source: fortelabs.com: 12 Favorite Problems
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