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An engineering habit that dies hard no matter how much you turn into an empty suit type is asking “what are we solving for?” Impulse to distill a problem out of a “situation” and move on to solving phase is driven by belief that debating solutions beat debating suppositions.
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Sometimes the discussion about what we’re solving for is very valuable on its own. It doesn’t have to be a “shut this down and move on” question.
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