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somervta comments on New Monthly Thread: Bragging - Less Wrong Discussion

30 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 August 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: somervta 12 August 2013 11:01:42PM 2 points [-]

It's not really a tool - that's just what I used to call breaking up a task into subcomponents in a sort of 'next-action-chain'. You know - I've got an assignment due, but instead of worrying about the whole assignment, it turns into

read chapter 9 -> read this paper -> scratch out an outline -> fill in arguments file ->decide which arguments I'm going to focus on...