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Use when an urgent problem has a fast "fix" available — before adopting it, check whether the fix's relief mechanism is the same channel that will make the underlying problem worse and require a larger dose of the same fix next time, versus an ordinary…
Use when you are a crisis contributor whose exceptional capability made you indispensable during an emergency — to recognise that the same capability which made you irreplaceable during the crisis becomes a structural threat to the principal once the crisis…
Use when a plan is finalized but not yet launched, to surface failure modes the team hasn't acknowledged before commitment is locked in.
Use when facing a stated problem and about to move straight to generating solutions — pause and explicitly challenge whether the problem as framed is the right problem, since the frame (not the quality of the proposed solution) determines the entire solution…
Use when you need to attract an extraordinary person — a key hire, co-founder, advisor, or critical partner — who has alternatives, won't respond to standard incentives, and screens candidates by how much they genuinely understand and need them
Use when estimating the cost, duration, or probability of success of a project, initiative, or decision you are personally involved in — replace or check your case-specific intuitive estimate against the actual outcome distribution of a class of comparable…
Use when you need to discover another party's true position, interest, or timeline and direct questioning would produce diplomatic or socially expected answers rather than genuine disclosure
Use when facing severe competitive defeat — forced exit, punishing terms, or subjugation by a stronger opponent — where survival requires accepting humiliation in the short term, to systematically rebuild capability over years while maintaining the motivation…
Use when planning a campaign, product launch, or competitive push — to build strategic potential before committing, combine direct and indirect forces simultaneously, and strike at the moment of maximum advantage rather than at the earliest opportunity
Use when deciding whether to continue a project, relationship, purchase, or course of action that has already consumed significant time, money, or effort — before weighing that prior investment as a reason to continue, because money, time, and effort already…
Use when managing a portfolio of initiatives, products, teams, or investments — to identify areas generating surplus above their optimal level and actively redirect those resources to deficit areas, because the human default (pile more into what's already…
Use when a problem keeps recurring despite fixes, when a team is reacting to events without understanding why they happen, or when a decision needs structural rather than symptomatic treatment.
Use when negotiating and direct requests or arguments aren't surfacing the other party's real position — mirror their last few words to prompt elaboration, label the emotion you observe without asking if it's true, ask calibrated how/what questions instead of…
Use when direct recruiting for a specific type of talent or partner is failing — to make a single visible, costly, and seemingly disproportionate investment in a specific instance of what you want to attract, demonstrating credibly to the market that you are…
Use when considering a co-founder, key long-term partner, or senior hire into a mission-critical role — before committing to a deep, open-ended, high-trust collaboration, test alignment on fundamental direction and decision-making philosophy through concrete…
Use when competing in a market where third-party relationships — partners, distributors, platforms, standards bodies, or key suppliers — determine who wins, to build your own coalition while preventing the opponent from forming theirs
Use when designing organizational processes, product iteration cycles, or performance systems and need to identify what feedback exists, what is missing, and how to make it faster or more accurate.
Use when designing governance, organizational processes, or operational controls — to audit whether each desired outcome requires individual virtue to produce, and replace virtue-reliance with structural mechanisms that make good behavior the rational…
Use when your organisation's performance depends on the judgment of a few exceptional individuals — to encode that expert judgment into systematic, teachable doctrine that average practitioners can execute, decoupling performance from individual talent and…
Use when solving a complex, human-centered problem where the right solution is unknown — to move through structured phases of deep user empathy, problem reframing, divergent ideation, and rapid prototype testing before committing to a solution.
Use when designing a customer, patient, or user experience with multiple sequential moments — a service journey, a medical procedure, a product onboarding flow, an event — to deliberately design the most intense moment and the final moment, because people's…
Use when deciding whether AI-generated code can be trusted without reading it line by line — instead of reading the target code, build or generate small, deterministic, narrowly-scoped verification tools (coverage checkers, complexity linters, mutation…
Use when building or iterating on an LLM feature, prompt, or agentic system — to measure improvement objectively rather than speculating about what the model needs.
Use when building or prompting a multi-step agentic system — to structure execution so the agent plans before acting, creates verifiable checkpoints, and avoids irreversible mistakes.
Use when defining a new product, feature, or service before committing resources to build it — especially for initiatives with unclear customer value, competing solution approaches, or significant investment required. Trigger before writing a PRD or technical…
Use when a project's cost or schedule depends on multiple uncertain estimates — running a Monte Carlo simulation across many randomized combinations of those estimates to produce a probability distribution of likely outcomes, rather than relying on a…
Use when deciding how much additional QA effort a specific code change warrants — route the decision through the change's actual risk profile (does it touch money, authentication, personal data, or concurrency?) to select which additional QA layers apply,…
Use when deciding how much test and verification code to write around a piece of core logic, now that AI can generate it at near-zero marginal cost — classify the logic by consequence-of-failure tier (disposable, hope-it-works, must-not-fail,…
Use when establishing a testing strategy for a new project, when test suites are slow or flaky, or when the ratio of unit/integration/e2e tests is imbalanced
Use when evaluating commodities as an asset class — assessing where a specific commodity sits within a multi-decade supply-and-demand supercycle, since commodity prices move through long structural cycles distinct from equity market cycles and require a…
Use when judging where a market cycle currently stands — classifying the current phase as correction, adjustment (accumulation or distribution), or trend (exaggeration) using Kostolany's egg-shaped cycle model, to judge whether a move is likely to continue,…
Use when a current debt buildup, asset boom, or credit expansion is being explained away as structurally different from past episodes that ended in crisis — check the situation against the same quantitative markers (debt-to-GDP trajectory, capital-inflow…
Use when evaluating whether an entire asset class or credit market is experiencing a systemic mispricing — verifying the underlying loan/asset quality directly rather than trusting credit ratings or market consensus, since ratings and consensus can be…
Use when planning a persuasive presentation, pitch, or talk — designing the argument architecture, narrative arc, and evidence sequencing to move a specific audience from their current position toward the desired outcome.
Use when building or auditing a social media strategy including platform selection, content mix, posting cadence, and KPIs
Use when designing a work schedule, environment, or practice to enable sustained, distraction-free, cognitively demanding work
Use when building a new capability, closing a performance gap, or sustaining long-term improvement — to replace intensity-and-breakthrough thinking with consistent small efforts that compound, because regularity produces exponentially better outcomes than…
Use when planning your workday or a work session — to identify the single most important or most dreaded task and complete it before anything else, eliminating the procrastination tax.
Use when someone is ambivalent about change, resisting intervention, or when direct advice and persuasion have failed to produce movement
Use when helping someone reduce psychological suffering caused by rigid avoidance, fusion with unhelpful thoughts, or values-behavior disconnection — particularly for anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or stress.