Croissant forming machine - GIF

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For the few humans with super pattern recognition (autism) skills, just seeing the outside of the box, is all that is needed. It's that autism that lets the few stand away from the herd, and wonder how the heck that works, or simple messing around with fire and stones, invents the iphone. It took many iterations to get to where we are. Most of us, just copy what the predecessor did, in that monkey see, monkey do basic animal behavior, but the autistic ones got us to where we are today.
My gift was figuring out who to get the brain dump from, and listening to many ideas. I know I was good at seeing the good ones, and getting the group to do some brain storming. In my life, I just applied what the other vanilla PHDs/MS taught me. Dad, and all the minions I watched was the major help.

I know when I was looking for my job out of engr school, there were two companies from Texas that were down hole instrumentation. One had some quiz question I remember, as the stretch of their telemetry cable did not allow them accurate location by it's length, at it stretches when down a 3 mile bore. They were looking for answers from fresh EE students looking for a job, on an accurate way to do this. Probably a great way to interview sort the imaginative from "don't know which way to turn a left hand nut in the southern hemisphere" thinkers. But careful, my wife is smarter then me, and don't know left from right. She does put up with my autism.