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Risk-Driven Development and Decentralization (with Satvik Beri)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to Backward-Chain a Life Goal
Backward-chaining is the idea of starting with something concrete that's not quite what you want and then taking a step back. In software, one thing I was trying to do at one point was see if essentially I could take a Python script and run a slightly modified version of it on hundreds of different machines. And so I googled around a bit and found a product Amazon Web Services batch which offered to do this for me. So now my previous approach of just forward chaining all the time would have been to try and really study exactly how batch worked. Instead I took a specific batch project, made sure it worked, and then deleted all of the stuff that was specific to
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