<h1 id="downscoping-as-a-skill-subprojecting">Downscoping as a skill (subprojecting)<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#downscoping-as-a-skill-subprojecting"></a></h1>
<p>A blocker to action on ambitious projects is their scope. Downscoping a project -- decomposing it as much as possible -- is an important skill.</p>
<p>Scope creep is the natural state of an idea, like a slime mold’s survival drive. Fighting this creep is essential to maintaining a reasonable equilibrium on the hypothesis you seek to answer.</p>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
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<li><a href="/inquiry/notes/5988f8ec-c945-458a-8309-9f318af16602">Projects</a></li>
<li><a href="/inquiry/notes/06ea3d39-0b83-4052-86f2-f1e82499b266">Linear Algebra as Spreadsheet</a></li>
<li><a href="/inquiry/notes/7ccc68c9-07ae-4d2d-bc8f-8299dd6f1c5d">GNU/Linux as an environment to prototype desktop environments</a></li>
<li><a href="/inquiry/notes/06e5f8b6-ed1d-4906-a6de-ba777d919247">Chat Documents</a></li>
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Downscoping as a skill (subprojecting)


This is [Max Krieger](https://a9.io)'s "inquiry" page. I guess it's like a [Digital Garden](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners). But I'm not trying to upload my Second Brain to it. Just want to share some half-baked ideas. One source of inspiration for this was Kevin Lynagh's ["Collaboration ideas"](https://kevinlynagh.com/ideas/). See also Sharif Shameem's ["Questions"](https://sharif.io/questions/).

It was made with [Dendron](https://dendron.so).

Take everything I write here (well, everywhere) with a grain of salt. That said I'm always happy to talk about anything on here.

The pages definitely don't adhere to [Andy's Evergreen Notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucpgE6LU155C) pattern, I hope one day they do.

Feel free to add [a PR or issue to the repo](https://github.com/maxkrieger/inquiry) to discuss any of these in public!

## Guide

Here are some of my favorite/extensive pages:

- [[Linear algebra as spreadsheet|projects.linear-algebra-spreadsheet]]
- [[Domain learning for computational microworlds|rethinking-media.microworld-languages]]
- [[Linux DE prototyping|projects.linux-desktop]]
- [[System Archaeology|projects.system-archaeology]]

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