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drethelin comments on Open thread, July 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: drethelin 22 July 2013 06:27:15PM 2 points [-]

the writing down of thoughts is or can be part of the 5-minute rule. Part of the 5 minutes of thinking of something is writing down your various ideas of how to solve it. The proposing solutions part is when you're actually talking to other people.