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The Wicked Problem Experience

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A day in the life of trying to complete a self-assigned project with no clear spec or goal.

Click lower right to download or find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. I’ve spent a lot of my career working on wicked problems : problems that are vaguely defined, where there’s no clear goal for exactly what I’m trying to do or how I’ll know when or whether I’ve done it. In particular, minimal-trust investigations - trying to understand some topic or argument myself ( what charity to donate to , whether civilization is declining , whether AI could make this the most important century of all time for humanity ), with little reliance on what “the experts” think - tend to have this “w

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