David_Gerard comments on Open Thread, November 15-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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You Must Try, And Then You Must Ask. Note the definition of "try" here is 15 minutes, not the locally-canonical 5. (I think 15 is about right for the context - programming and sysadmin stuff.)
The actual procedure is you must try, you must record your thinking, you must ask.