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Given the title, I expected praise for the nap as a problem-solving tool. Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with
by smitty1e 5y ago
Given the title, I expected praise for the nap as a problem-solving tool.
Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution?
Glad that my superpower remains secret.
- lostlogin 5y agoOr the opposite - you wake up and the massive problem is just not that big of an issue and isn’t yours to solve. Leave it alone.
- koolba 5y agoIf you sleep long enough and the problem is important enough, someone else will solve it.
- perl4ever 5y ago"The Fastest And Shortest Algorithm For All Well-Defined Problems ... An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly a the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220180215_The_Fastest_and_Shortest_Algorithm_for_All_Well-Defined_Problems https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220180215_The_Faste...
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoOne day, the Ancients will awake, very concerned. "Have you still not migrated to the stars? What's blocking you?".
- glial 5y agoOr the opposite of that - you conveniently forget about a dilemma, only to wake in the middle of night in a cold sweat thinking about it.
- scsilver 5y agoSuch clarity in life is a rare an sacred thing.
- daniellarusso 5y agoNot the same thing, but this works surprisingly well: Wu wei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI was even hoping for a reference to “hammock driven development”, but since I don’t see it in the comments yet here it is.
- danybittel 5y agoAs someone who's exclusively working alone. I've come to the conclusion that the maximum velocity one can advance in a project is how fast the brain can adapt to it's new state. And sleep plays an important role in that.
- lqet 5y ago> Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution? It's the opposite that is usually happening to me: I go to sleep thinking I finally solved some problem. When I wake up, literally the first thought is a clear counter-example on which the solution does not work. It's frustrating.
- gspr 5y agoSame here! Or the realization that the whole fascinating idea for a solution is completely ill-posed :-(
- TeMPOraL 5y agoSame here. It's particularly annoying when I thought through a problem (and perhaps slept on it too), figured I have it solved, started working on it, and then one day, halfway through the implementation work, I wake up realizing the design is broken.
- slver 5y agoApparently happens if you’re very intensely interested and focused on solving an issue. If you’re just frustrated and tired of it, it doesn’t.