Founders

One of my favorite exercises are "Dark Imaginings", mid project you take a moment to collectively put on tin foil hats (literally do that) and then imagine the worst possible things that could happen with through or because of your project. Then work backwards for a moment to imagine potential interventions to the projects to avoid this issue or if you want to make it a bit more fun write the press release of why that happenend and what next steps will look like...

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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It's also a great tool if you have doomsayer in your team, gives them space to actually raise their concern, and I hear you, but now lets find how we can reduce that risk...

once passed on investing in an “uber for home care” startup because, when I asked “what happens when your carers commit abuse,” they said, “our carers would never do that.” incredible to hear a founder pitch “blind faith in human nature” as a scalable business model.