I often get emails from young people asking how to figure out what to work on, so I stole the framework a good friend taught me and wrote about it:https://minutes.substack.com/p/the-hard-thing-about-choosing-hard?r=1gmlx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter …
it’s interesting how any field that has sufficiently progressed into phase 3 can convince itself that any marginal gains are actually the trunks of stepwise knowledge formation