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by lastthrones 128 days ago
I’m experimenting with a deliberately constraint-driven system. Instead of optimizing for growth or speed, it’s designed to be hard to finish and capped at a small number of participants. Mostly curious what that reveals about long-term commitment.
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Could you be more vague and generic?
Fair.

I kept it abstract on purpose because the constraint is the core idea, not the mechanics.

It’s a deliberately small system where only a fixed number of people can ever finish, and most participants are expected not to.

I’m more interested in what that does to behavior than in building something that scales.