Mastodawn

It is very interesting, as I get older, to realize that what looked like "brilliance" from senior faculty members when I was young was just "hey this person has read *a lot* and is pretty good at remembering and connecting lots of interesting things about what they read"

You, too, can cultivate this brilliance if you read *a lot* and practice connecting dots

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MidgePhoto

@pence
I think some of us can make larger more complicated models in our head.
And some very much larger ones.
There's the connections, and the data, and sometimes a substrate which at least has been well-assembled and tended.