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Xcelerate: I’ve always thought the issue was a bit less “Find the interesting research problem” and more “Find the resources, network, or skills that get you into the position of being able to work on the interesting research problem.”If you asked a bunch of researchers working on the “boring” stuff to predict what the hot papers of the year will be about, do we think they’ll really be that far off base? I’m not talking about groundbreaking or truly novel ideas that seem to come out of nowhere, but rather the high impact research that’s more typical of a field.

rakovsky89: mandatory: 'You and Your research' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776480