109 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scholarhacker 29 Feb \ on: Fess up, where do you all get your best ideas? Design
Reading. Especially academic papers or research reports. Often, through serendipity, you’ll read something (some small tidbit) that you never knew before and it will take you on a delightful voyage of discovery.
Came here to say exactly this. Reading research papers and connecting the dots.
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Wow, do you read research papers strictly on the same discipline or branch out to related disciplines so that you can cross-pollinate ideas?
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I focus primarily on academic research on Internet protocols, cybersecurity, and machine learning, published typically by ACM and IEEE. These are deep subjects in their won right. Now I add Bitcoin research to the mix which keeps me fairly busy.
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Yes and yes.
Stick to the topic when working on a project. Then after that, open it up wide.
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I call it “scholar hacking”. Exploiting Gray Data for fun and profit.
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I agree that the Universe presents you with things to learn at that particular point in time when your mind either needs it desperately or is prepared to receive it. Very often I learn something to find shortly after that it’s useful for my work or life to fulfill a purpose
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