Managing brain resources in an age of complexity.
1. Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read
Learn how to learn (rapidly)
3. Work backward from your goal.
Make contingency maps. Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things.
Make your mistakes quickly
Document everything obsessively
logarithmic time planning
MIT Libraries is working on a project aimed at logarithmic time planning.
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
Working backwards is simply beginning the thought process by assuming you reach your objective, then imagining the steps you must logically accomplish immediately before that. Then recurse
a tree of subgoals leading to the goal
TRIZ, a Russian methodology for procedural innovative thinking
Methods I use for problem solving:
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