Great post. Agree with the power of simplification and spotting isomorphism. However, those usually come for experience. right? I guess that is also a big difference with JK -- he does not have the experience. Without experience I would not know how to simplify and spot pattern. Maybe this is what you were referring to here, "If all data tools are hammers, I might have fewer hammers than many people, but I’m very good at knowing exactly how to wield my hammers to good effect by recasting problems into familiar forms."
Full throated agreement here. Questions are much more important than answers because if a question is relevant to a type of fact (widgets/donkins, say) they remain the same even when the particulars of the facts change.
Great post. Agree with the power of simplification and spotting isomorphism. However, those usually come for experience. right? I guess that is also a big difference with JK -- he does not have the experience. Without experience I would not know how to simplify and spot pattern. Maybe this is what you were referring to here, "If all data tools are hammers, I might have fewer hammers than many people, but I’m very good at knowing exactly how to wield my hammers to good effect by recasting problems into familiar forms."
Full throated agreement here. Questions are much more important than answers because if a question is relevant to a type of fact (widgets/donkins, say) they remain the same even when the particulars of the facts change.