Before a long expedition, good expedition leaders spend a whole day on something that looks boring: packing. Every item has a pocket, every pocket has a label, and the map is on top. They do this because on day 20, exhausted and cold, they will not have the willpower to search for the compass. Week 0 is packing day. You are not learning biology yet and you are not writing a simulator yet. You are building the cockpi…
If you only do one thing this week: the cockpit repo with TODAY.md filled for Monday
Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research, Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 7 March 1986…
Spare pocket 1
It is the argument for why a 40-week plan aimed at one thesis beats 40 weeks of interesting side quests — the exact failure mode your ADHD brain is best at
Read exactly: The passage on "important problems" (why most scientists never work on one) and the passage on open door vs closed door
Produce: 5 lines in notes/craft/W00.md: the one important problem you are choosing, and the two you are refusing