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4. Finding the Critical Problem: How to Work on The Right Things

The Bootstrapped Founder

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The Critical Problem Is Not Critical

If a problem can be solved quickly, people either solve it the moment it appears or set aside some time to do the work in the bach of something later. Only when you need to spend considerable time and effort each time you solve the problem will it be impossible to just deal with it? A critical problem takes up anonegitable amount of time. It's important, yet tiresome. For fipapanda, this was true because writing feedback for the parents of your student required a lot of mental effort.

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