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<a href="index.html"><code>~</code></a>
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<h1 class="heading-element">Unrelated engineer</h1>
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<p>
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This is collect of thoughts after I travel around the Internet. Not
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engineering related though.
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href="https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes"
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rel="nofollow"
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>Give it five minutes</a
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<blockquote>
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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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Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You
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can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it.
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That’s easy. The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it
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marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start
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out life as the wrong idea.
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<p>
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So next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch
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an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a
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little bit before pushing back, before saying it’s too hard or it’s too
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much work. Those things may be true, but there may be another truth in
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there too: It may be worth it.
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<a href="https://longform.asmartbear.com/say-yes/" rel="nofollow"
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>Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”</a
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So the principle is straightforward: Set the conditions of “yes” such
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that:
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If they say “yes,” you’re happy because the terms or money are so
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good, it more than compensates for the distraction, perhaps funding
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the thing you really want to do.
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If they say “no,” you’re happy because it wasn’t a great fit anyway;
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it’s not a worthwhile return on your time and effort.
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</blockquote>
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Feel free to ask me via
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<a href="mailto:hauvipapro+posts@gmail.com">email</a> or
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<a rel="me" href="https://hachyderm.io/@haunguyen">Mastodon</a>.
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<br />Source code is available on
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<a href="https://github.com/haunt98/posts-go">GitHub</a>
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<a href="https://codeberg.org/yoshie/posts-go">Codeberg</a>
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<a href="https://git.sr.ht/~youngyoshie/posts-go">sourcehut</a>
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<a href="https://gitea.treehouse.systems/yoshie/posts-go">Treehouse</a>
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<a href="https://gitlab.com/youngyoshie/posts-go">GitLab</a>
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