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Part 1: Exploration-Exploitation Part 2: Bargaining Trade-offs to your brain. Part 2a: Empirical time management Part 3: The time that you have Part 3a: A purpose finding exercise Part 4: What does that look like in practice? Part 4a: Lost purposes – Doing … Continue reading
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Wicked Problems
Nothing is a wicked problem. When I started researching problems and problem solving and solutions and meta-solving processes I stumbled across a wicked problem. This is from Wikipedia: Rittel and Webber’s 1973 formulation of wicked problems in social policy planning … Continue reading
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Tagged examples, how to measure anything, models, Nothing, problems, quantify, smaller parts, wicked problems
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Addendum to applicable advice
If you see advice in the wild and think somethings along the lines of “that can’t work for me”, that’s a cached thought. It could be a true cached thought or it could be a false one. Some of these … Continue reading
Applicable advice
Part 2: http://bearlamp.com.au/addendum-to-applicable-advice/ Part 2 on lesswrong: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nuf/addendum_to_applicable_advice/ Einstein said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” The Feynman Algorithm: Write down the problem. Think real … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, applicable advice, Einstein, feynmann algorithm, problems
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