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This was fantastic, and very timely for me, thank you!

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Thanks! Very glad it was useful.

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"Planning is doing" may be the most under appreciated point.

I'm privy to a group involved with a US semiconductor initiative working on the order of $B. My current takeaway from the initiative is that they're trying to build the framework to build the thing before building the thing once - a common failure mode.

So they aren't planning by doing, they're planning by planning. Building one thing first before scaling it up would be a huge de-risk, but it probably doesn't seem like enough work to justify the $.

In software, planning by doing might also be similar to the concept of "tracer bullets" mentioned in The Pragmatic Programmer book.

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