A quant trading question I’ve never found a good answer to — how to decide between spending time improving an existing strategy (high certainty, low return on effort) vs starting something entirely new (uncertain but potentially high return on effort).
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Not sure there is a whole book here, but definitely a chapter in my next book (not the one I'm writing now. The one after that :-) )
Appreciate it. Fwiw I agree with all of this except I have absolutely no desire to “hang out with academics at conferences” 
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you out your energy into the thing you’ll be productive at instead of the thing you’ll dilly dally on while you daydream about the other thing. i look for things where even if i dead-end i might have the seeds for a new attempt left-over
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but i mean, if we are being super realistic, go triage
#TODO comments, shitty docs, finish unit tests, refactor things that need it. technical debt suuuuucks and has a way of stealing your attention when its at its most valuable - Show replies
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