The most interesting point in the Gribbins' excellent biography of Feynman is the value of "irresponsibly" ignoring existing research and working everything out for yourself from first principles.
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It's not always a good idea to "reinvent the wheel," but it's a good idea more often than it's recommended (which is never).
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Never not!
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It's called "Hacker."
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I think a lot of mathematicians recommend it once you get to the point of doing real mathematics, not just homework problems.
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I have two concerns: I wonder how possible it is to follow that advice in the publish or perish academic era, and how useful that advice is for people that are not utter geniuses
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For example, Poincare was studied by a psychologist who was curious about how he was so productive, and the book describing his findings has very little that is useful for mere mortals
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Glad other people think the same. In software engineering terms, I often think the short & long-term overhead of trying to incorporate and integrate myriad software tools to "improve efficiency" is not worth it. Building simple in-house tools or frameworks adds to IP and effcicie
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‘The marketing girl soured him with a look. "Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."’ — Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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“you can’t expect exceptional results by doing what everyone is doing (or recommends, for that matter)”. You must have powerful enough intelligence to infer things on your own, from scratch, though. By inferring things on your own you get much more integral mental model.
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Definitely better to use a simple shell script than an enormous bloated framework that takes days worth of training and trial-and-error to even apply properly. Many similar such cases exist.
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True. Two views on this. One has so little knowledge that framework is out of question ( sometimes ignorance is bliss). Second view: You can write a sophisticated framework if need be, but know through real wisdom and knowledge the virtues of simplicity(proxy for highest clarity)
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