Hmm. This sort of goes well with the idea that propagation is hard. When a mathematics student is first studying a subject, they tend to start off with a very specific view of each new skill they pick up. Only with time and experience does one propagate the skill throughout other domains of knowledge and come to use it in the real world, saying “Hey, I bet if they altered the shape of the packaging here they would save money! I can do the optimization problem in my head, why didn’t they think of that?”
Hmm. This sort of goes well with the idea that propagation is hard. When a mathematics student is first studying a subject, they tend to start off with a very specific view of each new skill they pick up. Only with time and experience does one propagate the skill throughout other domains of knowledge and come to use it in the real world, saying “Hey, I bet if they altered the shape of the packaging here they would save money! I can do the optimization problem in my head, why didn’t they think of that?”