I've noticed that PG in his essays solves a difficult question by transforming it, e.g see http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html (3rd paragraph) and http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html (6th paragraph).
So transforming questions yields much better answers. Any advice on how to develop this skill? Can you point to some principles or recommend some books?
I'm an electronics engineer who likes to work on embedded software, unfortunately where I am from(Peru) there are no jobs available on this area(apart from being a teacher assistant). So I'd like to work abroad.
But, as far as I know, the only way to do that is to go to grad school to another country, apply for an internship and then get the visa to stay there, so that's currently my plan. The issue is that I don't enjoy doing research and writing papers; writing my undergraduate dissertation was a pain. So I was wondering if there is another way to achieve my actual goal without the intermediate step of going to grad school for 2 years.
