Ask HN: Researchers/academics, how do you deal with brain-information-overload? I'm wondering how you manage thinking about many different not-well-formed ideas in your research process. I find the academic research lifestyle highly variable: at times too dense with ideas and things to do, at other times less so. During the dense times I sometimes have trouble lingering on the few high-value ideas with increasing returns to time-spent-thinking-about-them. |