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33 frameworks
The 10% More Enjoyment Test
Enjoyment is a measure of efficiency. Enjoy the work 10% more and you are 10% more efficient.
Artifact Reverse-Engineering and Backstage Observation
Collect the best artifacts, reverse-engineer their questions, then go watch the sausage get made.
Build Taste by Watching Adjacent Software
Develop design intuition by watching real people use OTHER products, not your own.
Desensitization for Performance Fear
Neutralize public-speaking (or any) fear by exposing yourself in tiny, low-stakes, escalating doses
Eating Your Vegetables: The 10-12 Exposure Rule
Do a hard, avoided skill 10-12 deliberate times before judging whether you actually dislike it.
Exposure Hours
Build taste as a trainable skill by quantifying time spent watching real people use products
The Core-Functions Red Alarm (Burnout Triage)
Sleep, diet, exercise, play, socialisation: when the fundamentals break, your body is the scoreboard
The One-Skill Six-Month Block
Go all in on one skill for 3-6 months: study one example a week, practise it an hour a day.
Vision Over Fear (There's No Tiger in the Room)
Fear and discipline are short-term coping strategies. Sustainable drive comes from vision.
The Energy Audit
After every activity, log energised or drained — then do more of one and less of the other.
Beating Pre-Talk Nerves
Almost all speaking anxiety is before you start — reframe it, then rehearse by passive listening and transition drills.
Binary Quality Calibration
Instead of documenting what 'quality' means, classify shipped work as high-quality or not — and let examples teach the bar.
Conductor: Energy Leads, Emotion Follows, Words Fill the Gap
Shift your energy state on cue and let emotion and words follow automatically
If This, Then Breathe
A personal recipe book matching specific breathing techniques to specific triggers
Practice-Until-Your-Worst-Is-Good-Enough Interview Prep
Interviewing is the one skill with zero feedback — so run dozens of mocks in a small peer group.
Rewiring Stage Fright (The Pre-Talk Ritual)
Treat nerves as fight-or-flight chemistry and deliberately reset your body and mental model before you walk on.
The Energy Audit (Zone of Genius)
Color every hour of two weeks green or red, then eliminate the reds until your calendar is 80% green
The Rule of Lung
Make your exhale twice as long as your inhale to trigger the relaxation response before speaking
Triple Step: The Tree in the Storm
Hold one clear direction while integrating distractions, so nothing can derail your speaking
The Apex Survivor Model (Metabolism, Conversion, Adaptation)
Species that lasted 100M years share three traits — run your company on the same three.
All-In / All-Out Delineation
Full intensity when working, full disconnection when not — to keep bringing your best.
NSDR Recovery Protocol
A daily guided body scan that trains downshifting and delivers a two-hour-nap reset
Speaking Visualization Rehearsal
Mentally rehearse the whole speaking event in advance to desensitize yourself and gain a sense of agency
The Six-Month Passion Test
Don't trust your identity about what you'll love — give the unfamiliar job six months, then judge.
The AI Interview-Prep Coach System
Build an AI coach, mine the real question bank, drill weak spots — then mock with humans
Calories Per Hour: Intensity Over Hours
Get more done per minute instead of working more minutes, then go home.
The Alpha-Beta-Gamma Focus Grid
Map brain-wave states against motivation systems and deliberately spend ~25% of your year outside busy beta
The Complementary Learning Modes Ladder
Mastery needs many kinds of practice — imitate a master, get preference feedback, get graded, then live it.
Genius-Zone Time Budget
Spend at least 50% of your time on the work you're both great at and love — it's what keeps you showing up.
Build-With-The-Tools Assessment
Don't test people on doing work without AI — hand them the tools and score what they can build in an hour
Engineering the Creative Peak
Single-shot coffee, a two-hour deadline, and a good night's sleep — dial in the state, not just the effort.
Even-Keel Under Pressure
Don't reflect stress onto your team — mantras plus lived exposure keep your head clear when everything's on fire
Variety-as-Rest Anti-Burnout
Beat burnout by switching to a different kind of work when you lose steam, instead of stopping.