Traditional R&D (ie PhDs) is ass-backwards. You should race to your first original idea as fast as poss, *then* invest in discipline mastery
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The probability of novel ideas increases far more rapidly with knowledge than people assume. What n00bs lack is not knowledge but confidence
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You probably need only 3-6 mo from a discipline's traditional starting line to have an original idea, not 2-3 years as institutions pretend
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In most fields, a novice starts very, very far from the frontier.
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