Chain of Thought for Humans(boristhebrave.com)
109 points by ibobev | 54 comments
Blog post describing how narrating one's thoughts aloud, like LLM chain-of-thought or rubber duck debugging, improved the author's puzzle solving in The Witness.
#problem-solving on Hacker News
6 stories tagged problem-solving, newest first.
First Principles Thinking(sunilsadasivan.com)
270 points by sunils34 | 117 comments
A personal blog essay by Sunil Sadasivan on first principles thinking, illustrated with a sketch diagram about questioning assumptions and iterating.
I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)
1166 points by jernestomg | 633 comments
A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.
Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete(autodidacts.io)
351 points by surprisetalk | 117 comments
An essay on The Autodidacts blog arguing that troubleshooting, systematically finding and fixing causes of unwanted system behaviour, is a domain-agnostic skill.
How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?(manas.tech)
392 points by mgarciaisaia | 296 comments
Manas.tech blog post by Matías García Isaía about approaching unconventional problems, such as finding a lost phone at a camping site with no cell coverage.
Halfsies(brilliant.org)
443 points by hysan | 133 comments
A Brilliant.org challenge page titled "Halfsies"; the page failed to render and showed no content.