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 Strategy in a nutshell: 
 
 identify your resources, identify your goal, and identify any problems
 preventing you from reaching your goal.
 
 Then, develop a plan to apply your resources to solve or bypass problems in
 order to reach your goal. Easy.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/6292 ---
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 I'm stuck. I don't know how to leverage whatever talents I have into making
 things happen. Maybe I should seek advice from a wise elder...
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--- #2 fediverse/2713 ---
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 if you aren't organized enough to protect your commanders, then you don't
 deserve leaders.
 
 build the structure first. build it on honesty and trust and dedication toward
 a goal. then build the necessary adaptations as you encounter problems, trying
 vaguely to head in a particular direction, and eventually you'll become
 self-sustaining.
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--- #3 fediverse/2224 ---
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 No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
 plan that your enemy knows.
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 "why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
 own?"
 
 - motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
 
 empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
 are your traps mentally prepared?
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--- #5 fediverse/3816 ---
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 the tricky part of being an adult is that your problems become less and less
 google-able.
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--- #6 fediverse/2475 ---
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 If you want to design a society, first learn how to build a decentralized
 scalable multiprocessor computer program.
 
 It could literally flip bits, the point is to practice architecture not
 accomplish a goal.
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 When the rules are made for a system that is struggling with insufficient
 resources, they will make compromises that typically cause harm or don't
 fulfill needs completely.
 
 The problem is the insufficient resources. If the problem is upstream, then it
 should be addressed upstream, until all of the needs of the downstream
 resource utilization services are fully supplied.
 
 Then, the rules should be updated to account for the sufficient supply. If
 they are still limited, they should be labelled as such, and it should be
 considered virtuous (temperance) to use only what you need, neutral to use as
 much as you want, and sinful (gluttony) to use as much as you can.
 
 It's okay to sin a little. Especially on accident or in a frenzy. But be sure
 to calm down, and spend some time with the opposite virtue to counteract it.
 Ideally more time.
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--- #8 fediverse/3912 ---
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 the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not
 upon what may yet be.
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--- #9 fediverse/4038 ---
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 it's your life to spend. how do you [intend/plan] on being useful?
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--- #10 fediverse/2363 ---
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 Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
 opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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 the more you can make your opponent adjust, the more you progress toward
 victory.
 
 burn their calories. make them work for it. if they're stronger, you're weak.
 plan as with that in mind.
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 a plan unused is tomorrow's boon.
 
 a plan unmade is forever a lost play.
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 "you know what you never really hear anyone say?
 
 I need more projects."
 
 they should be allocated more resources so they can accomplish their
 objectives one-by-one as a matter of course.
 
 easy, if we all help each other.
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screenshot of a bunch of mastodon posts. sorry it's too much to alt text. there's some visuals drawn on the bottom right.
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 your bookshelf is a list of sources you can glance to. sources you've used for
 solving mental problems, things that you've enjoyed and engaged with, things
 that taught you lessons or brought you joy - things that you shared with a
 friend or perhaps read time and time again, there in your vision to glance
 towards.
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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 Question... Do you either:
 
 A. Wait for the fall 
 Or 
 B. Become the fall 
 
 One puts you in a better position, with the initiative and momentum. The other
 is reactionary and not solutions focused.
 
 "ah, but how do you ensure that everyone's listening at the same time? Keep
 listening, tselen dear, for your life is not just your own story."
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 the most successful strategy is always to strike from a position of strength.
 whether that be timing or power, the goal is to defeat the problem that lies
 before you. One by one, problems are solved, until at last you're through the
 worst of it. Then it's just a matter of expressing dominance, and "this is how
 thing's're gonna be."
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 @user-1268 
 
 if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building
 networking applications:
 
 https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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 if you want to solve EVERY housing issue in the United States, at least in the
 short and mid-term, add a ramping tax penalty for unoccupied houses that
 doesn't reset to 0 upon being occupied but rather starts ticking down at the
 same rate that it increases.
 
 Something like 0.5% to 1% of the property value for every month it's gone
 unoccupied as a primary residence.
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