This post brought to mind a post by Bret Victor titled Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction [1] where he frames working on and understanding problems at different layers of focus as providing insight that isn’t otherwise so apparent. It’s one of those posts that immediately resonated and that I’ve tried to internalize and adopt when approaching problems, especially those in new domains.

[1] https://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/