You have done amazing and extraordinary things without knowing how to do them. You just did them by doing them. So no matter how big the task, treat it like some hackathon and get the first sketch out as soon as possible. Don’t take things too seriously and just pump out the deliverable in a short amount of time, given the proper constraints, okay? Everything that’s big and scary for others is just simpler for you, easier for you because you view it like a hackathon. So you build the first step like hackathon and then you enrich the details into that rough sketch like the person who is best at this thing. And even that enrichment process can slowly ramp up. It’s not like you just go inside and act like Steve Jobs. No, you start from the place you are and slowly build up that familiarity with the project you are making, the game that project is trying to fit into, the data that you are receiving from that game, and then accordingly fit everything. Never does a thing go from zero to hundred. You start small, always, no matter the step, and then you grow into in the shoes.

All right, so with the hackathon mindset, you gotta make an outline of the rough sketch and then enrich the details so you can do anything in this world this way, okay? You just have to make a rough sketch, then enrich it, and then you win. And also, you cannot copy someone else’s enrichment one is to one. That’s why too much learning with regards to theory or tactics or operations related to the thing you are trying to do gets you stuck because you learn a lot of these things and they might not be implementable by you, or even if you can implement them, they can be a chance they are not relevant for you because the position from which you are operating is completely different. Maybe the market has changed, maybe the culture has changed, maybe the people they had to implement it all are not the same as the ones you have now. There are a lot of variables, so it’s really dangerous to try to copy someone because that’s a huge waste of time, money, and energy and morale also. You have to do the enrichment on the go as the game reveals the data to you. It also helps you not waste too much energy on dead ends. If the game is not revealing too much data, then cut your losses or make a new sketch for the same game. It is very intuitive and unique process at each state basis so from where you are right now the next enrichment to take how to do it you have to figure it out on your own, because it’s all different for everyone given who we are what we are doing what exactly is the whole context. So go and take a rough jab at it and enrich the whole life cycle of that jab the back step you took the hip twist the arm extension everything enrich the whole life cycle to be better and better and keep iterating till you get what you want out of that jab. Your end result will be as good as your intuition, the data revealed to you, and the data acted upon by you, and finally the efforts and time you put into the enrichment. Enrichment will need a lot of time, volume, and patience. It’s not hard intellect-wise, but volume-wise, so buckle up.

We are essentially in the avalanche business. You keep rolling small snowballs off the peak and one will roll so big it causes an avalanche. If you don’t start with a snowball and start with a huge snow block, you have to give yourself too much prep work and spend a lot of time and energy to figure out how do I even get this snow block from, how do I transport it to the hilltop. A shit ton of problems are caused by this type of mindset where you want to start way too advanced into the process. Start with tiny snowballs and not the snow blocks. Start with the tiniest possible sketch and then let the game and the time and your work enrich it.

The core message here is that start rough and get to enrichment as quick as possible. And enrichment is going to be a very bespoke process. Yours is going to be way too different than others and it might be possible that even your projects might be different from other projects. Interaction with reality causes divergence in path ( both in context of your path from other paths and your own projects with other projects.) So absorb all the context and enrich well.

Will your experiences from past or someone’s really good advice still work? Of course it will but those are helpful exceptions that appear every fortnight, your everyday grind is not going to be full of that