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The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (April 19, 2023)

Dec 15, 2023
Stephen Wolfram answers questions about business, innovation, and managing life. Topics include goal setting, bucket list items, business skills for scientists, balancing work and personal time, handling ignored scientific ideas, movie preferences, teaching versus being a professor, foundations of being a scientist, and the future of education.
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Quick takeaways

  • Approach projects with a logical, sequential order to ensure smoother progression and minimize frustration.
  • Focus on smaller sub-projects while waiting for project dependencies to maintain productivity.

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Approaching projects with dependent milestones

When faced with a project that has several clearly defined milestones that are dependent on each other, it is important to approach it strategically. Writing something sequentially, in a logical order, is preferable as it allows for smoother progression and ensures that later parts of the project build upon earlier ones. It can be frustrating to work on a project when some necessary components are not yet completed. In such cases, it is better to wait until all the pieces are assembled before proceeding to the next step.

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