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Think Apart Think Together
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Last discussed Jul 4, 2026
A co-founder decision-making technique used by Clay Bavor and Brett Taylor at Sierra, where both founders independently develop their thinking on a prompt before reconvening to compare notes and avoid groupthink.
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Used for: Co-founder decision-making on important topics like company values, strategy, and disagreements; avoids groupthink by ensuring independent thinking before convergence
Praised: Avoids groupthink; surfaces independent thinking; produced surprising alignme...
"Brett and I have a technique we call think apart think together where we'll initialize on a prompt. And the idea is not to groupthink one another. So we want to get kind of the best of our independent thinking. We did a think apart think together ..."
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