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Comment by leeoniya | Hacker News Reader

reminds me of the Feynman Algorithm [1]:

    1. Write down the problem.
    2. Think real hard.
    3. Write down the solution.

It's very easy to forget the first step :-)

And the second...

And the third can be a real strain on the wrist.

Yes, and rewriting is the real pain, actually.

That's actually the tricky bit, because often you're just thinking really hard that you're thinking really hard about the problem.

Or thinking about the wrong attack, and giving up. Or just thinking hard about how to define something... Or... Research is hard.