@Meaningness Curious what your thoughts are on the systematising breakthroughs piece. It may sound too rationalistic at first, but then it's a call for building a stash of heuristics to be deployed in various fields; with a few generic heuristics, and some very
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I think this is a very promising direction! I suggested something vaguely similar in “How To Think Real Good” but that was just handwaving. I think “methods of intermediate generality” are very valuable and tend to be overlooked in favor of either extreme.
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They are not easily located, however, and it’s somewhat difficult to demonstrate usefulness. Very much looking forward to whatever additions you come up with!
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I really want to like TRIZ but I find it a bit weird and feel somewhat skeptical about how useful it can be. It’s a very heterogeneous collection; some stuff is highly specific to particular sorts of engineering (in which case people in the field should know it) and some >
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> seems so vague and general that it’s hard to see how it would be useful. Unless just as a prompt to think about your problem in a more abstract way, which sometimes is useful.
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