[marcosdumay]

As time passes, free time gets rarer, problems get more complex, and it gets harder and harder to keep many open problems on my mind.

What you quoted is probably a genius not aware what limitation is the bottleneck for most people.

[closed]

Something that may be related is that the further you get in an area, the less structured coaching available (through textbooks, academic advisors, etc..). In this sense, a new problem pops up, which is learning to decompose complex problems into simpler pieces. Something that is often done for people in the early stages of learning (and I find super difficult without collaborating with others).

[eli_gottlieb]

>What you quoted is probably a genius not aware what limitation is the bottleneck for most people.

While Ed Kmett is in fact a Time Lord, that's largely because he doesn't seem to require sleep the way the rest of us do.

(I know him IRL.)