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Jim.J.Williamson's avatar

I love the emphasis on calling out strongly held beliefs early -- the divide between things we know we don't know and things we don't know we don't know is huge.

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Jake Plummer's avatar

What did I like more? / the post or the reference to known unknowns and unknown unknowns by some random commenter…

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Jake Plummer's avatar

I hadn’t heard of the “painting done” concept before and while I think one reason people don’t do it is bc of time scarcity I think another reason is that many people (incl me) don’t always stop to really think through what we want and why. It’s a really good reminder that if we don’t take the time to clearly define what the vision is, everybody’s downstream job just becomes harder.

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Serena Gupta's avatar

That's a good point and for sure a reason I don't always ask for more questions.

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Jake Plummer's avatar

fair...but actually probably a reason that someone needs to have the ability to say "hey, I don't think these instructions are actionable yet." I've actually been trying to think just over the past few days about how to make sure that everything I ask people to do is really well-defined (and figuring out what exactly that means...)

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Serena Gupta's avatar

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7fgwLWEKNdIp_XGQUuReMKCqmZl9t3y/view + https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OUmbkANdE0Nni9w1cCNZkShEB62LwPNW/view are anecdotes form Brene Brown's Dare to Lead which I haven't applied but found helpful.

I also struggle with explaining the specific requirements when it comes to non-technical problems.

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