This article breaks research down into trainable habits: choose your own problems, broaden your reading beyond trends, write and log every idea, and tighten your experiment loop with solid tooling. It also stresses purposeful exploration, scrutinizing outputs by hand, and building a generous network to compound learning and productivity over time.

This piece argues that the biggest predictor of groundbreaking research isn’t effort but choosing a high-impact problem. It offers advice on how to spot and focus on the questions that drive outsized success.