How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful [a practical guide]
'Resourcefulness' is entirely dependent upon knowledge of and experience in a particular area.<p>For example:  let's say my motorcycle just stops running.  15 years ago, I'd have stood there dumbfounded, looked through a shop manual with near-zero comprehension of anything in it, and eventually given up and asked for help.  These days, I'd immediately begin checking fuses, grab a multimeter and begin probing common fault areas (faulty kickstand or kill switches, etc).<p>People sometimes comment that I'm resourceful or creative, or noted for the fact that I remain calm and go into problem solving mode in situations like this.  But that's completely, entirely, solely due to the fact that I spent years upon years learning the mechanics of vehicles fairly intimately.  I understand the whole system well enough that I can understand what is wrong, form and test a hypothesis, and take action.<p>Similarly, I'm a decent and resourceful programmer.  But if you tell me to go chat up VCs for funding, I'm going to be completely lost.  How could I possibly have the slightest idea how to go about that?  I have absolutely zero experience in anything even vaguely related to that.  Furthermore, I don't <i>want</i> experience in that, because I recognize that I'm far better off focusing on my strengths than my weaknesses (something eschewed by the self-improvement crowd, but a well-demonstrated fact).<p>I find the whole thing kind of weird.  Of course a founder who has a background in schmoozing is going to do a better job of schmoozing, but that says absolutely nothing about resourcefulness.  This whole thing stinks of confirmation bias to me.