List of prompts for brainstorming COVID response project ideas

post by nonzerosum · 2020-04-29T21:39:07.966Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

Contents

  Your personal interests
  Network
  Skills and aptitudes
  Other resources
  Boundaries
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Suggested use: go through the questions, bullet out a couple things for each, and then at the end you'll probably have a couple project ideas that are uniquely suited to you.

Your personal interests

• What outcomes are you personally most concerned about? Especially things where you feel like you're more concerned than others.
• What questions or things do you find yourself most frequently wondering about?
• What are your urgent or critical challenges?
• What do you wish someone else would do?

Network

Because a hard part of many projects is reaching the people needed to build it, or reaching the people who you want to use it / benefit from it.

• Current and past work connections
• School connections
• Social connections
• Family and extended family, and their connections
• Family friends
• Online forums or communities

Skills and aptitudes

• What things do other people view as "work" that you do for fun?
• What things are really easy for you?
• What are your skills?
• What are your aptitudes?
• What have you built, worked on, or done in the past?

Other resources

• What other resources or assets do you have? For example, ways you can reach certain audiences, excess financial capital?

Boundaries

• How much time are you willing to spend on a COVID related project before seeing positive results?

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