Learning Facts About Lots of Different Things Is Really Useful

For me, just knowing a lot about a bunch of different areas is really useful. I spend all my time kind of trying to solve problems and try to think things through. My particular approach to things tends to be can i understand the foundational questions here? It's let me study this abstract mathematical thing that people have written papers about. And part of the pointis, if it sould have been left to the pure mathematicians, so to speak, they're studying very interesting things, but their strategy is quite different. In doing research and other kinds of things, the strategy is often more important than the mechanics.