What Is Research Taste?
Research is not about following a rigid plan. It is about exploring, finding signals, and turning those signals into ideas worth sharing. What follows are the personal heuristics I have come to rely on, not universal laws. Many of them have well-known precedents (Hamming's "You and Your Research" is the obvious one); what I want to add is the reasoning behind each one and how I weigh it when making decisions, rather than treating any of them as a rule to follow blindly.