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> My hunch is that this club won’t work because it fundamentally is just another distraction from the goal here: which is to actually do something. Just do it.

by rewmie 3y ago

> My hunch is that this club won’t work because it fundamentally is just another distraction from the goal here: which is to actually do something. Just do it. I'm not sure you read the whole article, but the author pointed out that the goal of the group would be to serve as a kind of requirements-gathering stage for doing something. The group would meet when a problem was identified, and the meeting agenda would be to iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solutions. Does it make sense to jump to the solution space when you barely have an idea of what the problem is?

bornfreddy 3y ago
Did you read it? Author laments about not taking action, then as a solution proposes a club to think (or as you said, ”iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solution"). I mean, how will the same thing they do already help with being more action oriented? > Does it make sense to jump to the solution space when you barely have an idea of what the problem is? Yes! Well actually, it depends - but if you see that your answer is "no" too often (as apparently OP does), then change the default answer to "yes". You will be surprised at what can be achieved. Do try to survive though. :)
- rewmie 3y ago
  > Did you read it? Author laments about not taking action, then as a solution proposes a club to think (or as you said, ”iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solution"). I mean, how will the same thing they do already help with being more action oriented? I'm not sure you understand the issue or thought through the problem. Acting without direction or a plan or even a goal is as much of a waste of time as not doing anything. Is your goal just to pay lip service to a "technically doing something" goal, or actually do something about a problem? Because if your goal is to actually do something about a problem, the very least you need to have in place is a plan. > Yes! Well actually, it depends (...) It really does not depend at all. To have a goals the very least you need to have is a basic understanding of the problem you want to tackle. This is not up for discussion. If you have no idea what the problem actually is, you simply cannot do anything about it. Unless your goal is to post vacuous content to social media claiming you do stuff in spite of not doing anything or achieving nothing, you need to know what you're doing. It boggles the mind how anyone can even try to argue about the need to know what you're doing.

by rewmie 3y ago

bornfreddy 3y ago

Did you read it? Author laments about not taking action, then as a solution proposes a club to think (or as you said, ”iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solution"). I mean, how will the same thing they do already help with being more action oriented? > Does it make sense to jump to the solution space when you barely have an idea of what the problem is? Yes! Well actually, it depends - but if you see that your answer is "no" too often (as apparently OP does), then change the default answer to "yes". You will be surprised at what can be achieved. Do try to survive though. :)

rewmie 3y ago
> Did you read it? Author laments about not taking action, then as a solution proposes a club to think (or as you said, ”iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solution"). I mean, how will the same thing they do already help with being more action oriented? I'm not sure you understand the issue or thought through the problem. Acting without direction or a plan or even a goal is as much of a waste of time as not doing anything. Is your goal just to pay lip service to a "technically doing something" goal, or actually do something about a problem? Because if your goal is to actually do something about a problem, the very least you need to have in place is a plan. > Yes! Well actually, it depends (...) It really does not depend at all. To have a goals the very least you need to have is a basic understanding of the problem you want to tackle. This is not up for discussion. If you have no idea what the problem actually is, you simply cannot do anything about it. Unless your goal is to post vacuous content to social media claiming you do stuff in spite of not doing anything or achieving nothing, you need to know what you're doing. It boggles the mind how anyone can even try to argue about the need to know what you're doing.