Will Radio, Part I -- Strategies for Idiosyncratic and Creative Thinking https://diode.zone/videos/watch/793fb1f5-26ee-418d-8646-d09db29fba1d Episode 0011 of Will's Guide to Programming Languages, Programming, Computation, and What-Have-You. Will Radio, Part I -- Strategies for Idiosyncratic and Creative Thinking identify the most promising or standard approaches to a problem, and then do anything but that (algorithms class), 20 techniques/20 problems (Feynman), Cisco's Rule, Olin's Rule -- standard advice is for standard outcomes (Ed Fredkin & reversible computing, kiloTube, miniKanren, most scientific advances, etc.), "My next one will be better!" (Ed Wood, at least in the movie), find a way to get past your self-censorship and natural aversion to looking foolish (kiloTube as a way to get into an work-a-day mindset about making videos; How to Write a Lot), succeed epically or fail epically! (kiloTube, H211, my spelling of 'epically'), Edward Kmett's rule: do the thing people are less likely to believe is true; also, anything people laugh at (much of miniKanren), the start of becoming good at something is being bad at something (see anything I've ever done, interesting observation I heard from HB&B: one reason kids learn quickly is they are used to being bad at things), identify the assumptions people have about a topic, and find ways around them (impossibility proofs; on the roof with a chainsaw for cryptanalysis; program synthesis book), play! (Feynman; Friday Night Hack Nights and Ignobel Prize), play to explore, not to win (game night; StarCraft tournament; Day[9]'s Funday Monday), ======================================== Original video: https://youtu.be/AlOuzYgRjh8, Originally published: 2024-01-29 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:51:59 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diode.zone Will Radio, Part I -- Strategies for Idiosyncratic and Creative Thinking https://diode.zone/lazy-static/avatars/61b689b7-84d5-43c7-9fa8-e63a7fd1d952.png https://diode.zone/videos/watch/793fb1f5-26ee-418d-8646-d09db29fba1d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diode.zone/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.