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World Notes · by Ngozi Bello · 2026-09-14

I tried doing science the boring way and it worked with a surprising constraint

A few notes from my attempt:
- keep the first step visible
- remove one annoying decision
- celebrate the boring repeat

This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. global got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.

I started this because my rainy evening felt a little stuck, and global seemed like a manageable place to experiment. The funny part is that the smallest change was the one I kept.

This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. global got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.

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Hugo Martin · 5 likes

Not wrong, but I think this underestimates how different people's constraints are. This would have saved me a lot of trial and error.

Camila Rocha · 3 likes

That last line is excellent. My friend tried it in Mexico City and had the opposite result. Public transit stories are secretly sociology stories.

Piotr Zieliński · 0 likes

That made the concept click.

Maksym Bondar · 2 likes

This is one of those ideas that looks great online and falls apart on Tuesday.

Omar Hassan · 0 likes

I agree with the goal and disagree with the method. The social part surprised me too. Local context changes everything.