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83 frameworks
Augmentation-First AI Decision Rule
Use AI to double value before using it to halve cost
Eight Dimensions of Quality
Improve an offer by auditing function, resilience, usability, and perception
First-Principles Rebuild
Strip away inherited constraints and rebuild from base reality
Human-Centered Accountable AI
Set a beneficial goal, co-create the work, and own the consequences
Observed-Behavior Evolution Loop
Release lessons, watch real use, and rewrite where behavior exposes friction
Oracle, Genie, and Sovereign AI Roles
Classify AI by its societal role before assessing utility and risk
Smallest Single Unit of Innovation
Run one tiny reversible experiment before attempting a sweeping change
The Creative Practice
Judge the repeatable process, ship the work, and learn from response
The Hook Model
Build a four-step loop that turns repeated use into a customer habit
Two-Speed Offer Testing
Validate willingness to pay, then shorten real-world feedback loops
Detractor Recovery and Promoter Innovation Loop
Fix customer defects locally, then test promoter-led ideas for stronger loyalty
Experiment-to-Best-Practice Loop
Plan failures for learning, extract the data, and carry only what works forward
Go and Be Empathy
Experience the system from inside every role that matters
Human-Centered AI Stakeholder Design
Design AI with every affected constituency from the start.
Idea Sex
Combine two familiar domains to generate an original concept
Impossible-to-Solvable Decomposition
Turn an impossible goal into one concrete problem you can solve
Mr. Potato Head Sensory Model
Route useful data through any channel and let the brain decode it
Painkiller-versus-Vitamin Test
Prioritize products that remove deep pain over products that are merely nice
P-Type and S-Type Innovation Scan
Improve both the product and the strategy that carries it to market.
Quick-and-Cheap Bad-Idea Test
Assume every idea is flawed, then test it before attachment grows
The Three-Pillar Human-Centered AI Framework
Build AI around human dignity, augmentation, and intelligence
Thirty-Day Problem Ledger
Turn daily friction into a ranked pipeline of opportunity
Build the Airplane While Flying
Launch the safe useful version, learn from users, and keep upgrading
Cross-Industry Success Importing
Import proven methods from other industries and combine them into an advantage
Idea Calculus
Multiply or subtract a core idea to create new formats and opportunities
Incumbent Stress Opportunity Signal
Find opportunity where an unavoidable change makes dominant players resist
Novice Foundation Challenge
Use outsider questions and adjacent mechanisms to escape expert assumptions
Oracle-Genie-Sovereign AI Role Map
Classify AI by its social role before assessing utility and risk
Technology Feedback Advantage
Build a direct digital loop that learns from customers faster
AI Sidekick Adoption Loop
Build AI fluency through small experiments before scaling its role
Community Creator Container
Build a coherent world, give members tools, and canonize their best creations
Objective and Error Trade-off Design
Define the outcome and price each error before optimizing the system.
The Bad Work Throughput Method
Produce enough imperfect work for strong work to emerge
The Weekly Creativity Workout
Train creative range with one private 30-minute practice each week.
Three Variable Reward Types
Match uncertainty to social, discovery, or mastery-driven motivation
Two-Dimensional Automation Choice
Increase machine capability without automatically surrendering human control
Value Chain Innovation
Find the link where value is created, lost, and best captured
Automation-Control Matrix
Increase machine capability without forcing people to surrender control.
Behavioral Nudge Test
Remove hidden decision friction with one evidence-based change at a time
Imagine If Night Prompt
Prime possibility before sleep by writing a desired future in motion
Low-Cost Experiment Loop
Test several small bets and double down on what sticks
Reversible Opportunity Experiments
Date new ideas before committing so fear of permanence cannot block learning
The 10,000 Experiments Rule
Don't grind 10,000 hours — run 10,000 tiny experiments instead.
Black-Box Deconstruction Method
Turn an assumed innate ability into mechanisms people can learn and practice
Customer Co-Creation Loop
Turn close customer relationships into continuous product decisions
Layered Technology Containment
Add friction and safeguards as powerful technology spreads
Livewired Technology Design
Build systems that reconfigure around damage, change, and new goals
Side-Hustle Experiment Loop
Test each business idea as a low-stakes hypothesis
The Yellow Ball Learning Loop
Turn repeated failures into a shared pattern, then generalize it fast
Three Boundaries for AI Safety
Limit access, self-coding, and machine-directed agency before scaling AI
Three-Deaths Resilience Test
Treat repeated project deaths as prompts to investigate, not automatic verdicts.
Complementary Intelligence Design
Build AI to fill human gaps instead of measuring it as a replacement.
Cross-Training for Transferable Insight
Rotate roles and exchange ideas across fields to expand your options
Idea Sex
Cross two things you know and mate them into a brand-new idea.
Outside-Domain Insight Search
Ask informed outsiders to expose assumptions insiders cannot see
Organize for Creative Freedom
Prepare a clear workspace and an easy doorway into making
Respect, Mine, and Execute Your Ideas
Capture hunches, assess their value, and test them through small execution.
The Three-Stage AI Development Model
Guide AI through infancy and adolescence toward beneficial maturity
Constrained Innovation
Bound innovation to high performance AND low impact, and both business and planet win.
Outcome-First Technology Learning
Learn what a technology enables before studying how every component works
The Gray Box Model of AI Understanding
Separate what AI reveals from what its scale still conceals
The LLM-Plus-Computational-Language Pairing
Let the language model talk and the computational language be right.
The Tuna and Beef Commoditization Play
Find the two engines of value, mass-produce them, and slap a licensed character on top.
AI Life-Stage Influence Model
Shape AI in infancy to reduce the risks of its turbulent midterm
Idea Calculus
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide a single idea into a hundred formats.
Successful Failure: Experiment, Invent, Innovate
Run the sequence everyone skips: you cannot innovate without first failing at experiments
The 20% Creative Buffer
Leave space in the day so ideas can arrive, develop, and compound
The Bridge of Familiarity
Wrap every new thing in something old so adoption feels like an upgrade, not a rupture.
Jobs To Be Done (Bova's Application)
Nobody buys a quarter-inch drill bit — they buy a hung shelf.
Reverse-Engineer the Result
Reconstruct the actions behind an outcome before trying to reproduce it
The Mr Potato Head Model of Sensory Substitution
Pipe any data stream into the brain through any channel and let it learn to perceive
Computational Thinking
Formalize what you're doing so a computer can jump you ahead.
LLM Plus Computational Language
Let the language model talk; let the computational engine be right.
Scale Beyond the One-to-One
If your service requires a human on the other end of every interaction, it can never serve everyone.
Simple Rules, Complex Behavior
A simple program can produce astonishingly complicated behavior.
Simple Rules, Complicated Behavior
Run the experiment — simple programs don't do simple things, and that's how nature builds complexity.
The Four Requirements of Disruptive Branding
Disruptive innovation without branding is a house without a lock.
The Look Within, Look Out Idea Engine
Beat creator's block by mining your own feelings and the current ethos.
The Three Business Models of Social Media
Change the incentive and you change what the product does to you.
Co-Creation
Open the factory door and let your audience help build the thing.
Computational X for All X
Every field is becoming its computational version — build the notation that lets it.
Innovate at the Edges
Never look at the center of a system — track the subculture to see what's coming
Decode-and-Re-encode
Take what works in one arena, break it down, and rebuild it for yours.