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Scott Wagers
@scottwagers.bsky.social
MD/Scientist drawing from experience supporting the development of more than 60+ consortium projects to write about science and finding meaningful work through big projects.
I do this all the time when I help design, develop and deliver big projects.

Get my exact process:

www.thebigprojectcollective.com/p/to-do-mean...
To do meaningful work, forget your expertise, expand the breadth of your knowledge instead.
Expanding your breadth of knowledge is easier than you think.
www.thebigprojectcollective.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Start with curiosity.

Then build up in an iterative manner your knowledge that is more like literacy than in depth knowledge.
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There is one thing that makes it much easier to get high-powered people to collaborate.

Knowing something about their fields of expertise.

The challenge is learning something about all of those fields of expertise.
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Strive nonprofit in the US bringing together 300 community organizations
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Apollo moonshot.

More than 400,000 people involved.
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There are many multi-party collaborations that have made stunning achievements.
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Small and simple collaborations are just not that powerful.

Multi-party collaborations, while potentially much more powerful, are however constrained by collaboration’s evil step-sister, competition.
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We are no where near knowing or understanding all the inputs that determine the difference between health and disease.
April 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This would have to mean an across the board suspension of the need to validate anything with clinical trials.

It also assumes that will at some point be able to predict everything, which may not be the case every if we knew and understood all the inputs. 👇
April 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Start by joining The Big Project Collective. www.thebigprojectcollective.com/p/big-projec...
Big Projects, Big Fear, Big Fulfillment:
How Big, Messy Projects Create the Kind of Transformation Small Wins Never Will
www.thebigprojectcollective.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you are not pursuing a big project with an adaptive, iterative mindset good luck maintaining enthusiasm.
www.thebigprojectcollective.com/p/big-projec...
Big Projects, Big Fear, Big Fulfillment:
How Big, Messy Projects Create the Kind of Transformation Small Wins Never Will
www.thebigprojectcollective.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The linking of listening for understanding and love is remarkable. It reminds me of the pressured, effervescent conversations between friends often late night at party when they start building on each others ideas.
March 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM