I was immediately reminded of Rich Hickey's talk, hammock driven development: http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586 http://blip.tv/clojure/h

I was immediately reminded of Rich Hickey's talk, hammock driven development: http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586 http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586. It sounds like he was onto something with the waking mind being being prone to finding local maxima, but the background/sleeping mind being good for branching out and finding other solutions. edit: Actually it looks like he cited scientific american talking about the sleeping brain finding relations between problems, I only remembered the bits about strengthening memory.