Hi John Salter, thank you so much for the insights! I agree that neglectedness may be a misleading metric. However, I just wanted to clarify what you meant by the phrase “heuristics for finding good problems others will miss.” Given that neglectedness is not desirable, what do you mean by problems “others will miss” in your quote?
Do you mean problems that have rarely been considered at all (whereas “neglected” problems mean those that many people have recognized but chosen not to address)? Or something else?
Hi John Salter, thank you so much for the insights! I agree that neglectedness may be a misleading metric. However, I just wanted to clarify what you meant by the phrase “heuristics for finding good problems others will miss.” Given that neglectedness is not desirable, what do you mean by problems “others will miss” in your quote?
Do you mean problems that have rarely been considered at all (whereas “neglected” problems mean those that many people have recognized but chosen not to address)? Or something else?
I regret that particular phrasing. I wish I instead wrote:
”Heuristics for coming up with ideas for how to spend your time, and then prioritizing between them”