found more than once that when i find smth that might really help (oh this paper is precisely about the problem i've been having!) i postpone engaging with it... almsot as if had grown accustomed to the mode of 'there being a problem' and face resistance to moving on from it...
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the old CFARians used to say "it's okay for your problems to be solvable"
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in the early days CFAR was like "oh we will just come up with and iterate on techniques and then give the best techniques to people this is going to be great"
and then we ran into load-bearing problems and meta-problems and feelings about problems and feelings about techniques
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you weren't a real rationalist until you ran into your first problem that actively resisted being solved
