The reading thread / papers that changed your mental model

Looking for reading notes rather than a wall of links. Name the idea that changed how you approach a problem, then explain what you tried differently afterward.

For me, the useful shift has been treating a failed assumption as something to document explicitly. An elegant explanation is not the same as an observation.

If you share a paper, link the author’s or publisher’s copy and add enough context for someone to decide whether it is relevant.

I get more out of a short note about one figure than a summary of the whole paper. It is easier to discuss a specific claim.

Exactly. “This changed how I measure X” is a much better starting point than “everyone should read this.”