Post #1696718

I work in a super chaotic way, but one which (it turns out) suits the kernel really rather well: I dive in the deep end where I understand nothing. Then I start just trying to do stuff/understand stuff even so and let my mind kind of hold vague notions and go through feel... Like bumping around in a room with the light off and figuring out where the furniture is by walking into it... Sometimes you turn on the light and see a broader picture, but parts are usually missing. Sometimes really fundamental parts... It's worked really well for me generally, I can't really explain it but I just have a good 'feel' for doing the work. But it means I have had really big fundamental holes in my understanding all over the place, stuff you'd be surprised by... Like most people go somewhere along a certain set of roads, and I've gone through the sewers, climbed onto a roof, jumped through a window then paraglided in :) Am consciously trying to MAKE MYSELF fill in these holes now.