[cfusting]

"deep work"meaning concentrate. Breaks, of course. Innovation does not happen at the grind. Funny how concentration has gone out of fashion.

[UncleMeat]

Innovation isn't the most time consuming part of a PhD. If you are doing benchwork there is an amount of time that is simply required to get experiments functioning.

[cfusting]

I suppose I am thinking of it from math/coding perspective where the right idea saves a ton of time.