Hedge
Start several, let the world pick.
Three starts, one survivor.
Seen in Nina Katchadourian, Monument to the Unelected, 2008–
Try it on your work
Divide your working surface or material in three. Start three versions of the thing you're working on that cannot be reconciled. Continue only the one the next person to pass points at, or the one still intact after a night. Stop when one is chosen; discard the others unread.
Write three opening sentences for incompatible versions of your project: one modest, one grand, one sideways. Send all three to someone and ask for a number back. Continue that one. Stop when the reply comes.
Make three small, real commitments to three futures for the project that exclude each other: a venue, a format, a partner. Fund each a little. Stop when one future arrives and the other two lapse; do not rescue them.
How it has been used
Some desert annuals do not germinate all their seeds in the first favourable season. A fraction remains dormant, sacrificing immediate growth so that the lineage still has a chance if the apparent good year turns bad. This is biological bet-hedging: resources are committed to incompatible timings before the future is known, rather than placed behind a single forecast.
Where it leads
Grouped under Spread it across more people or parts