Simplify Your Life Solving Complex Problems Easily

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Swap's exponential growth, rapid traction, and the challenges of cash burn secrets, reflecting on the company's journey and milestones.

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So I think that the problem solving mentality has always been with me. Uh and obviously during the the during college when I was studying engineering that got to a whole different level because as an engineer you learn to once you face a very challenging problem, you simplify that problem as most as as most as you can. Right? car becomes a single dot and uh the whole uh road from here to Sanentos becomes a straight line. So you simplify the problem, you try to solve that sliced simplified problem u with the tools that you have and then you recombine them to perhaps get to the solution of a more complicated problem. U and I I kept applying this throughout my entire life. So these synthesis and analysis that I just mentioned they are present both at engineering and at consulting. I think what the the difference is and what I learned with consulting is to be hypothesisdriven. Um, as an

engineer, you tend to think more like a scientist testing alternatives and as a consultant, you tend to work more on a hypothesisdriven scenario. So, you basically come up with the solution and you believe that solution is the right one and you you try to prove they're wrong. Whereas with the engineer you you kind of test different solutions and see which one

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