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A similar trick to help crystallize thinking about the project is to ask whether it's on the order of hours, days, weeks, or months. This mitigates the fear of
by redler 9y ago
A similar trick to help crystallize thinking about the project is to ask whether it's on the order of hours, days, weeks, or months. This mitigates the fear of speaking a number and having it be enshrined as a guarantee, while connecting the rumination process to the experience of past projects in all their underestimated splendor.
- wiredfool 9y agoI like this approach, especially for getting estimates out of trades that don't like doing estimates before they tear apart your clutch. "Is this a hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars problem" can work wonders.