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Constant, regarding "analysis paralysis," keep in mind there are often two separate questions:
1. How much time should I spend thinking about X?
2. Given I'm allocating T time to think about X, how should I divide up T among different thought subtasks?
Analysis Paralysis would generally be a problem with (1).
The current blog post applies more to (2). In the Maier example, the participants presumably know they have a sizable chunk of time blocked out, and the experimental group presumably gets better results not by spending more time overall, but because they reserved a good chunk of T to spend learning the problem, *without* committing right away to a solution.