[yesenadam]

Interestingly, the first result in that search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198290

> There are very famous quotes from Richard Hamming (see "You and Your Research") and Richard Feynman (see "Surely You're Joking!") about the importance of working on problems that seem trivial at first. Not only do they help you enjoy problem-solving for its own sake, but if you work on enough silly problems, then eventually the odds are good that you'll stumble upon something that other people will later think is really important.

seems to use it as advice not to work on the important problems in your field, but to go down rabbit holes doing frivolous research..