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He does need a better name.

> The purpose of the thought experiment isn't to generate the real solution. It's meant to put a lower bound on the solution. Then you think of a real solution with that lower bound in eyesight, and you'll find it's often better than your original solution.

He does not say to actually implement the quickest hack you can imagine, nor to skip the mundane steps that avoid tech debt. He says spend 10 minutes imagining a quick hack after laying out your initial solution, and incorporate anything you learned into your actual work. To me, it sounds very similar to a startup chipping away at their original idea to get a MVP.

> The purpose here is to break their frame and their anchoring bias. If you've just said something will take a month, doing it in a day must require a radically different solution.



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