GuySrinivasan comments on Heuristic is not a bad word - Less Wrong
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Very general. It's a hard problem to make much headway on such a broad topic - starting with heuristics for a narrow range of problem solving might give good direction for how to think about the wider problem.
Got that one from proving things in combinatorics. :D
Incidentally, we will see what comes of Tricki, the mathematical problem-solving technique wiki - it goes fully live in a week or so.