alt Hacker NewsYes. He also says: “How do you find problems worth working on?” a senior engineer I mentor asked me recently. My point is that I'm working in a whole different environment, and the challenge - to me - is never finding interesting problems to solve, but identifying the most important problem out of a large pool of known problems.
That still sounds like it chimes with the quote you shared. The question the senior engineer was asking may have been exactly your last sentence. As in, among the “pool of known problems,” how do I find the ones worth working on? “Worth” may not mean “interesting” but “of lasting value”