Read "Masters of Doom" To solve a new problem space, Carmack would buy a bunch of college text books, then check into a rando motel for a few weeks, and just d

Read "Masters of Doom" To solve a new problem space, Carmack would buy a bunch of college text books, then check into a rando motel for a few weeks, and just dissect all the topics and books, until he'd come up with the design of, for instances a new ray tracing engine. Crazy smart, focuses, and talended.