Many young people trapped in the "intellectual black hole". A person that's very good at consuming impressive amounts of information. But doesn't produce much. The best people output often more than they input, IMHO. In a kind of uncontrollable way.
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The moral of his work is: write a lot of papers, no matter how many you write each one will have roughly equal odds of being a masterpiece so you should just increase production.
It's discussed in a bunch of his papers, and in the first chapter or so of his book "Creativity in Science". Basically, it's something like a quantitative version of your initial tweet: ramp up your production as far as you can, bc your odds on every project are about the same.
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(Yeah, I'm now arguing with myself here. I've thought a lot - maybe too much! - about both sides of this.)
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I think generally people have a belief that the more they learn/ know the better they create & forget that if you just create first, anything you need to learn within the process of creating, you just reach out and find & learn. IMO this trend is based in lack of self trust.
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Reminds me tangentially of "The Ceramics Anecdote" from Art & Fear https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality/ …
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Neat. I learned something new today. I'd hate for PMs to hear this as "just propose more things!" advice though for the sake of their engineers!
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