1. Find somebody that doesn't realise the problem is unsolvable and delegate to them.
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2. Find a low-cost way to keep the ball in the air in the hope that the problem will become solvable
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4. Apply band-aids to stop the bleeding caused by the problem.
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I wonder what percentage of work is doing one of these? I think it'd be much more than expected. Everybody just assumes that everything they do has a positive resolution, even though many failures are actually inevitable.
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That's the black-pill. The white-pill is pointing out that even though a particular problem might be unsolvable, there's often something you could do which would make it obsolete.
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