The best approach, then, isn’t to start by looking for an answer in a sea of fluff, but it’s about having a framework in place to trim the fat so that we can zone in on what matters.
“What are you really trying to accomplish and how does what you’re doing accomplish that?”
Start there. Eventually, if you ask enough pointed questions, you can go from a big noisy world where there’s either no clear solution or an illusion of a solution to a smaller, more narrowed circle of localization where you only have the relevant decision-making tools left to use.
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