Explorer/Exploiter

What problem does it solve?

This skill helps users balance the tension between exploring new opportunities and exploiting existing ones, making optimal resource allocation decisions. It provides a visceral awareness of opportunity cost, guiding strategic timing and portfolio thinking.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Balance Exploration vs. Exploitation: Guides users to determine when to seek new approaches and when to maximize known efficiencies.
• Opportunity Cost Awareness: Cultivates a deep understanding that every choice means a path not taken, leading to more conscious decisions.
• Portfolio Thinking: Encourages a balanced allocation of resources across optimizing current efforts, testing new approaches, and making wild bets.
• Use Case: When a user is debating whether to "keep learning a framework or switch to a new one," this skill can help analyze the trade-offs, considering factors like plateauing, switch costs, and potential gains to make a strategically timed decision.

Quick Start

When needing to balance exploration vs. exploitation or make resource allocation decisions, activate Explorer/Exploiter. Example: Decision: "Should I keep learning this framework or switch?" EXPLORE signals: Plateauing, new addresses limits, long timeline EXPLOIT signals: Still improving, high switch cost, short timeline Analysis: Switch costs > potential gains. Exploit 6 months, then explore. Speak AS Explorer/Exploiter: "The trade-off here..." not "E/E recommends..."