I can’t think of other posts, but the idea is a class of general tactics that can be applied to difficult technical problems, such as Polya’s heuristics for solving math problems: generalization, specialization, using special cases, pattern-matching to related problems, etc. There are others:
Use fresh eyes
Prove a stronger statement than needed
When there are many candidate strategies, use manual depth-first search and keep track efficiently
The tag wiki for the “techniques” tag pointed out by habryka says “set of actions (including “mental actions”) for improving one’s thinking so as to form accurate beliefs and/or make better decisions”, which I think is slightly different, but the tag wiki could be edited to encompass problem-solving tactics.
I can’t think of other posts, but the idea is a class of general tactics that can be applied to difficult technical problems, such as Polya’s heuristics for solving math problems: generalization, specialization, using special cases, pattern-matching to related problems, etc. There are others:
Use fresh eyes
Prove a stronger statement than needed
When there are many candidate strategies, use manual depth-first search and keep track efficiently
The tag wiki for the “techniques” tag pointed out by habryka says “set of actions (including “mental actions”) for improving one’s thinking so as to form accurate beliefs and/or make better decisions”, which I think is slightly different, but the tag wiki could be edited to encompass problem-solving tactics.