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Part of the problem of publishing new ideas is that I can already see flaws in it. 1) What’s the right level of abstraction? This can be a post-hoc rationalisation. 2) What if the paradigm you’re operating in has changed underneath you? 3) Can bottom-up reasoning sometimes work?
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Long piece this week: commoncog.com/blog/the-right The core idea here is that it's tempting to take ideas from one layer of abstraction and apply them to a different layer. But it's not usually a good idea to do so.
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