So cutoff there, so it comes down to just tons of planning with your confidants, your people that you work with, and trying to make a careful plan on paper. Or, the helicopter can only fly while there's still a little bit of light.
So yeah, it's a big paper puzzle that has so many ways that you're like, oh my gosh, if I do it this way, then we won't have time to do that.
So you have to design on paper and work your project around those elements that are going to be taking precedent, if you will. You know you only have so much time that if you have an explosion going on- like, obviously that is the key element that is going to change everything around it. It's all done on paper in advance, and you'll have certain-I call them 'linchpins'- that are just do-or-die essentials.
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