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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 16
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    Been thinking about this more. What is the most interesting effort/resource factor you most willing to waste in pursuing a project right now? I think for me it is imagination. I’m willing to keep brainstorming until I find a creative tack.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1261761799176642561 …

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    No matter what the challenge or environment, I've found that basically the only way to tackle it in a generative way is to come at it with an attitude of abundance. There must be some X factor you're willing to simply waste in responding to the challenge.
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      2. Jason Shen‏ @JasonShen May 16
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        A stable identity. I think now is a great time to try reinventing oneself in different ways since there’s so much chaos in general.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 16
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        So how do you waste that? Try alts on for size?

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      2. Karen Karenina‏ @culteyes May 17
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        I’ll raise you: I’m mapping my rabbit holes, so to speak. I call it “loose beginnings” to formalize the process but I’m basically wasting time/energy takes notes, going back over notes, and zooming out to create a systematic process or choreography for my rabbit hole inclinations

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      1. Ian Johnson  💻 🔥‏ @enjalot May 17
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        paper. maybe not that interesting but I have to fight years of "saving the trees" programming to put enough ink down to really figure out an idea. I also waste a lot of code but that costs a lot fewer electrons to write than does to run

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        Coding As a manager Willing to waste X hours on coding

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      1. Sachin‏ @SachinB91 May 17
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        Time and imagination

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      1. Lorenzo Swank‏ @lswank May 17
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        My predilection for cold contacting people. People are successful, but I’ve been on lots of teams where everyone is afraid to ask for resources outside of the team. Outside of the organization. I just emailed somebody at NASA last night to ask for two spots on a CubeSat project.

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        Money, specifically for expert consultation. Consultancy can be a grift (sorry), but the ones I trust are worth their weight in gold.

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        Conversations. When an interesting idea for a project enters my head, I usually run it down by inflicting it on the people around me. Often just the next 2-3 good friends that I meet, plus 2-3 intentionally selected people. Helps me refine the idea and build energy.

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