This is a good lesson for me in a very different context. I could relate to what you said about it’s a mental-process with maybe 99% trash, but there’s still 1

This is a good lesson for me in a very different context. I could relate to what you said about it’s a mental-process with maybe 99% trash, but there’s still 1% not trash in there and I can only know it isn’t trash by not getting carried away without verifying the hypothesis in first place. Lesson learned: sure, go ahead with hypothesis hunting, but also spend time to verify them first. Edit: more simply, be careful about confirmation bias.