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When I took a problem-solving class in college, they broadly categorized problems into three types (allegedly in increasing order of difficulty to solve): probl
by cbhl 10y ago
When I took a problem-solving class in college, they broadly categorized problems into three types (allegedly in increasing order of difficulty to solve): problems that can be solved with money, problems with processes, and problems with people.
- zajd 10y agoSeems pretty weak. You need all three to do anything. Seems like a weak backdoor argument that "money doesn't matter when it comes to the hard things" (as long as your hard things don't take money)
- cbhl 10y agoThe key takeaway I had from that course was "money can solve more problems than you think, so it should be the first problem-solving strategy that you consider". This was pretty counter-intuitive in college, when I always felt like I didn't have enough money, but just knowing that this was a possible way of solving many classes of problems changed the way I approached decision-making in my later life (e.g. when picking my first job out of college).
- adamnemecek 10y agoDid the class have a book?