“Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:

1. What are the most important problems in your field?
2. Are you working on one of them?
3. Why not?

[…] Hamming used to go around actually asking people this, and it didn’t make him popular. But it’s a question anyone ambitious should face.”

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

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