A surprisingly large proportion of the best ideas seem to result from a thought of the form "What if you just...?" When you face a complicated problem, it might be worth explicitly asking "What is the what-if-you-just of this problem?" in case there is one.
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The privilege dripping in these statement.... probably 10,000 times I ask myself "what if we just" but, well - time /money /real world obligations
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Paul can you please illustrate 1-2 examples. This is a bit confusing.
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The answer to this question depends on if you can afford to experiment on real things. There is a Jalopnik article, relating someone else's tweets about the new Supra. BMW makes build decisions based on simulations, Toyota needs to build actual prototypes.
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Only danger with this is that the 'just' implies that its easy. Which can be offensive to people who work really hard on hard problems. So in my experience I try and keep this to myself until I figure out what I'm missing or if its valuable.
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"What if you just destroy all the street parking and add protected bike lanes?" -> is a route to angry business owners and boomers.
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“What if you just had an auditable trail for electronic voting machines in the U.S.?”
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Ha I feel like I’m doing this. As I go further down the hole, just find a what if solution.
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It’s just a bunch of hacks almost. Hack every what if with a better solution it seems.
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Uber was born from asking the same what if..so you're spot on Paul what-if-you-just can lead you to a billio dollar IPO
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