Thinking Fast and Slow is a result of some 20 years of regularly publishing and talking about those ideas with others.
Most really memorable works fit that same mold if you look carefully. An author spends years, even decades, doing small scale things before one day they put it all together into a big thing.
Comedy specials are the same. Develop material in small scale live with an audience, then create the big thing out of individual pieces that survive the process.
Hamming also talks about this as door open vs door closed researchers in his famous You And Your Research essay
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Thinking Fast and Slow is a result of some 20 years of regularly publishing and talking about those ideas with others.
Most really memorable works fit that same mold if you look carefully. An author spends years, even decades, doing small scale things before one day they put it all together into a big thing.
Comedy specials are the same. Develop material in small scale live with an audience, then create the big thing out of individual pieces that survive the process.
Hamming also talks about this as door open vs door closed researchers in his famous You And Your Research essay