Wisdom

Let big decisions bake before acting

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I don't want to do anything right now, I want to let this bake. And I want to let people have an opinion, you know, form opinions on it and continue to talk about it a little bit.

Episode 134: ChapterGPT (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:40:22 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

On a contentious question (stopping auto-ingestion of Anchor feeds), Dave would rather let people form and voice opinions for a while than make changes now. He uses the same approach for proposed tags, which he gives time to 'bake'.

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    And, as usual, with these types of things, I was like, Well, I'm just gonna give this some time to bake.

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    We pause here for a little while with the namespace because three years later answers is just coming on board.

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