by 1970-01-01
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- There's a 4th way, but it works least often. Maybe Method 2.5 fits better: Wait for the problem to fix itself to your level of risk. Ex: This road is blocked. I have a good news it won't be blocked in X days/months/years. Let's just wait until it's a little better for us to travel down and do something else for a just little while. It's a hybrid between waiting for the path to open up for everyone and forcing your way through. Taking a stepping stone between changing the world and changing your solution to the problem.
- There's way number 1.5: Solve a different but related problem, which gives you like 80% of the benefits of solving the original problem, but at 20% of the cost. This allows you to experience much less pain without an investment of resources you can't afford.
Aka "quickfix" or "hack".
by CapitalistCartr
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- Two methods I have found useful. If it seems an intractable problem, you've made two goals equal. Figure out the conflicting goals and decide which will give way, such as once I think about it I realize the unspoken goal is I don't want to challenge Mom, M-I-L, Boss, etc.
Second method is 6 steps:
Intel, intel, intel, always be gathering intel.
Clear mind, set aside emotions.
Clear vision of what I want, the more clear and detailed, the more likely I'll get the result I want.
Detailed plan to get from current reality to vision.
Execute plan.
Debrief: what worked, what mistakes, etc.
by StrangerFoos
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- It's very interesting that he's talking about start-ups.
I worked for one of Fragner's start-ups and it was an unmitigated disaster in all ways.
He secretly recorded a meeting with myself.
by pyrolistical
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- This is why you schedule angry emails to be sent the next day. Maybe you’ll wake up and realize it’s not a problem at all
by RobotToaster
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- Where does "Make the problem worse so someone else fixes it" fit?
- I’d add a fourth option: not over-trusting the methodology itself.
The world isn’t a perfect-information game, and many “problems” are defined under uncertainty.
by erichocean
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- A favorite of mine: assume a sub-problem has a solution (even though it doesn't), and solve everything else assuming that solution holds.
I find that after I do that, once I have a solution for everything else, a less-general solution to the sub-problem is often sufficient to keep the global solution valid.
- I wrote this up as the four disagreements.
https://blog.onepatchdown.net/philosophy/2023/10/03/four-pil...
by nailherwithrust
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- be first, smart, or cheat.
- The site's text is medium blue on a gray background with a font-weight of 300. I'm all for a bit of visual variety and personal expressiveness but this is pushing the boundaries of accessible legibility on some systems and screens.
(Yes, I realize there are various browser accessibility tools, reader modes and even custom CSS overrides, but I'd prefer not being forced to force those things on for all sites - because it means that "bit of visual variety and personal expressiveness" no longer exists for increasing numbers of visitors.)
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