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Anybody have any good tricks you use to “stage” an extended effort? Examples: Dry runs/rehearsals Mockups Putting non-critical scaffolding in place even Acquiring presentation material (business cards, schwag, suit) About pages Signing up for services before they’re needed
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Staging is logically unnecessary, but psychologically valuable out-of-order execution so that a lot of the work-in-progress evolves in a context as close to execution or launch context as possible Dress the project for the job it wants, not the job it has
Waterfall planning works to the extent it is about conscious staging It fails to the extent it’s about creating a false sense of security around uncertainty Don’t make Gantt charts where there are no actual constraints, do dry runs of launch day and work backwards instead
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On the woo end, visualization works to the extent it is about staging It fails to the extent it’s about catalyzing motivation via desires/aversions Ie it is advance behavioral conditioning
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When the unreal is made real even for show, the surreality of it brings sharp relief to the chasm and what needs to be done to bridge it.