The Elegant Pitch

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Build an Architecture

Building your architecture is the heart of the structured thought process. Fortunately, it’s a simple concept. Unfortunately, people tend to overcomplicate creating the architecture. Remember, the reason you’re building an architecture is to prove your core idea in a manner that’s understandable to your audience. When you build your architecture, you might have an urge to gather all the facts you know related to your core idea, then assemble them into your architecture. Don’t do that! You’ll end up with a logic jalopy comprising many different facts that lack a coherent structure to tie them all together. Instead, let your core idea and your audience drive your architecture’s construction.

The first step in building your ...