- 1: want to do When things are ambiguous, the boundaries of what you want to do are not clear.
- 2: In such a case, you can try a solution that is already available (existing software, etc.)
- 3: Then there is a division between what was “done” with the solution and the rest that was not.
- 4: If you focus on “something you couldn’t do but still want to do” you can observe it better than at first. Then the boundaries become a little more clear.
What to do after this Option 1: modified.
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Increase “what can be done” by modifying part of an existing solution
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The reason why there are so many engineers in the world who think that open source software is better is because it is more likely to be modifiable than non-open source plug-rams.
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Some things are easy to modify, some things are difficult to modify
Option 2: Combine different solutions
- Combining multiple solutions (tools and software)
- Even people who can’t write programs can do it up to the point of combining them.
- Often has a gaping hole.
- Sometimes it is necessary to write a program that connects those gaps.
- gluecode.
Option 3: Make
- When you have thought this far and then think about “making it,” it becomes clear what you are going to make.
- If you try to create something with a vague initial “what you want to do,” you will end up creating a very large area.
- Thinking about how much can be solved with existing solutions, and then thinking about making them, we can think like, “Let’s use A to the extent we can do it with A,” or “We don’t need B.”
2023-10-31
- relevance - How can we increase cognitive resolution?
- Some people are unhappy with this story.
- That’s because what he says he wants to do is not really what he wants to do.
- I want to be the one who made it” is the real desire and purpose.
- What you say you want to do is a means to “be the one who made it.”
- So I’m not happy about “making it happen without making it happen.”
- Related: who wants to be the one who made it.
- That’s because what he says he wants to do is not really what he wants to do.
2021-04-18 First published. 2023-10-31 omni mentioned
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