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88: Properties of an Interesting Problem

The Bootstrapped Founder

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The Properties of Critical Problems

Most critical problems are always partially intrinsic. The more boxes the problem checks on this list, the more likely it is strongly felt pain that prospective customers would pay to have solved. Critical problems take up none negligible amounts of time and that happens every time as well. You can solve a critical problem quickly. If you could, it would be critical. Deferring the work usually causes even more work in the future. A critical problem will feel like an unwelcome chare. It's important, yet tiresome. They involve a loss of some sort person's quality of life is often severely impacted by critical problems either financially or by wasting time.

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