Rules of Thumb
- What are some rules of thumb for how to make progress in research?
- We do these things all the time, and some are well known but we rarely write them down
- Sometimes having a checklist is useful when you get stuck, or when you're tired
- Today we'll be developing a list of such rules of thumb
- Two levels: on solutions and on problems
- Each rule of thumb should be at most 1 sentence long
How to solve solutions
- What are concrete things to try when you get stuck solving a problem in your area?
How to pose problems
- What are things to think about or questions to ask when you get stuck posing/framing a problem?