Interesting Interview

With a behavioral economist.

My advice for young researchers at the start of their career is… Work on your own ideas, not your advisor’s ideas (or at least in addition to her ideas). And spend more time thinking and less time reading. Too much reading leads people to think of small variations on existing studies. Admittedly my strategy of writing the paper first and only then reading the literature (or, more likely, letting the referees tell me what they think I should have read) is an extreme one, but it is better than trying to read everything. Try writing the first paper on some topic, not the tenth, and never the 50th.

Might be worth taking this advice for movie making.  In my short time in the movie biz, I've noticed a little "have-you-seen-itus" when every time you come up with an idea, everyone thinks you need to see every other movie or every other spec screenplay that tried to play in that territory.  I wonder at a certain point whether the return on time is diminishing.