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# Unrelated engineer
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This is collect of thoughts after I travel around the Internet. Not engineering
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related though.
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## [Give it five minutes](https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes)
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> There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other
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> people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea.
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>
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> Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can
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> scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy.
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> The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore
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> it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong
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> idea.
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>
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> So next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an
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> idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit
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> before pushing back, before saying it’s too hard or it’s too much work. Those
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> things may be true, but there may be another truth in there too: It may be
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> worth it.
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