Yes, if you’re grok the “show up” frame. Say you show up for our Friday governance studies chat regularly for 3-4 weeks, and then propose a new track on say geology. You might get a nibble. Show up for 8 weeks and incept/notice geology conversations, much more likely to take root
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In fact, so long as it’s not ultra-specialized, the topic doesn’t matter. People with a time-abundance habit-formation mentality tend to be rather indiscriminate in what they sign up for. The clincher is not the topic but a reliable driver and a (low) critical mass of 2-3 people.
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Hmm. Just hit me that this is also how my consulting practice works for me at its best. If you want to hire me for 20h but use my time in a 1h/week or even 1h/month way, I can do vastly more for you than if you try to have me do 3 full-time “leadership retreat” days.
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I suspect the common feature is compound interest on mutual learning. You get to know each other as well as the shared topic, in compounding ways. Not least because you shallow-sample an evolutionary trajectory rather than doing a deep snapshot.
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For eg. We’ve been doing our rover project for ~2y now. It’s our most “intense” project since the weekly call is zoom rather than audio, and has presentations. Very slow. We’ve logged ~150-200 each I’d guess. 100h shared talk, 100h solo work…
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…But I think we’ve all learned more and different things about rovers and robotics than we would have if had done an intense 200h “rover bootcamp” over 1 month. We’ve sort of built a sustainable rover-ing “habit” as a hobby.
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Actually, an intense rover bootcamp *now* would be high value, though it would be hard or impossible to arrange (flip side of a lifestyle of many 1h/week commitments is it’s harder to just get away from your life to immerse yourself in 1 thing)
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Level up with the foundations already built up and knowing the follow through mechanism is built and tested ready to absorb any value
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