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Productivity4 steps

Ambitious Retry (Pass@N) Tool Use

Get more from AI tools by asking for the ambitious change and fully restarting on failure instead of hammering the same attempt

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Innovation4 steps

Build for the Exponential (Skate to Where the Puck Is Going)

Build products for the model that arrives in 6-12 months, betting that today's 20%-working features hit 100%

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Strategy5 steps

Category-Attribute Fit

Don't pick a market then decide how to win. Work out what wins there, and only pick markets where that's who you are.

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Innovation5 steps

Constitutional AI Self-Critique Loop

Align a model to written principles by having it critique and rewrite its own outputs, then train on the fix

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Innovation4 steps

Disassemble the Lego Set

Don't digitize the old thing — reassemble the pieces into an experience native to the new platform.

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Communication6 steps

Energy-Aligned Writing

Write only what energises you, only what overlaps your job, and publish nearly all of it.

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Productivity5 steps

Flow-Preserving AI Assistance Design

Design AI suggestions around the user's flow state: no panel switches, no waiting, ephemeral by default

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Leadership4 steps

Full-Stack Relationship Orgs

Replace support, success, research, PR and marketing with two teams that own a human relationship end to end.

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Marketing3 steps

Identify–Invent–Implement Naming Process

The three-phase discipline Lexicon uses to engineer names, not just brainstorm them.

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Productivity5 steps

Imperfect Metrics as Education

Report an imperfect engineering metric on purpose, then use every question about it to educate upward.

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Mindset4 steps

Marginal-Impact Reasoning Under Tail Risk

Prioritize catastrophic low-probability risks by expected value and by how few people are already working on them

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Sales4 steps

Match Go-To-Market to Buyer-User Alignment

Pick developer-led, PLG, or direct sales by asking one thing: are the buyer and the user the same person?

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Innovation4 steps

Optimizing for Feelings

Name the emotion the product must evoke, build to that, and use metrics only as an honesty check.

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Sales4 steps

Outcome-Based Pricing Qualifier

If the work is autonomous and the result is measurable, price the outcome — not the tokens.

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Innovation5 steps

Persona-Framing for AI Product Behavior

Pick a human metaphor for your AI, then derive its behavioral guardrails from that role

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Mindset3 steps

Polarization as a Naming Signal

If the team is comfortable with the name, you don't have the name yet — look for tension.

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Leadership4 steps

Project-Chosen Leads and the Mutt Hire

PM is a role on a project, not a department — and you staff it with multi-disciplinary makers, not title-holders.

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Communication4 steps

Radical Trust Building

Not radical transparency — let people know you as humans, so the permission dialog gets the benefit of the doubt.

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Innovation7 steps

Research-to-Product Graduation

Move an incubated moonshot from the research lab to a product team without killing it or trapping the researchers

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Resting in Motion

Treat the busy, working state as your normal baseline so heavy long-term work stays sustainable

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Productivity4 steps

Root-Cause Context Engineering for AI Coding

Don't just fix the AI's bad code — root-cause the missing context so it's right next time.

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Marketing3 steps

Sound Symbolism Letter Selection

Choose a name's letters for the feelings their sounds evoke, not just their meaning.

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Strategy5 steps

Stocks-and-Flows Pipeline Diagnosis

Model any org process as stocks and flows, then find where reality disagrees with the model.

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Strategy5 steps

The 60/30/10 Portfolio Capacity Split

Allocate team capacity across incremental wins, operations, and audacious bets before priorities compete

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Strategy5 steps

The Boring Engineering Strategy

Write the strategy down, get the diagnosis honest, then constrain options so energy goes to what matters.

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Marketing3 steps

The Competitor-Launch Name Probe

Test a name by pretending a rival just launched it and watching what it makes people imagine.

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Strategy5 steps

The D5/D7 Ungameable North Star

One metric that fuses retention, engagement and growth — tracked as growth rate and cohort slope, never absolutes.

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Strategy4 steps

The Economic Turing Test

Measure transformative AI by whether you'd hire an agent for a real job without knowing it's a machine

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Leadership4 steps

The Honest-Applicable-Reversible Values Test

Three tests that separate values which drive decisions from values that just describe your self-image.

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Innovation4 steps

The Made-Up Name Reset

Give a team or feature a name nobody recognizes, so nobody can skip the argument about what it should be.

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Leadership3 steps

The Most Impactful Thing Today (with the Honesty Test)

Wake up asking what maximizes impact — then interrogate your answer for skill-set bias.

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Marketing4 steps

The Naming Diamond Exercise

A four-corner worksheet that turns a naming problem into a behavior-and-experience brief.

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Leadership5 steps

The Shared-Fate EM/PM Pair

Give the eng manager and PM the same performance rating, and make them understand before they argue.

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Communication5 steps

The Teach-Me-Something-In-One-Minute Interview

A 60-second timed teaching exercise scored on completeness, complexity, and clarity

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Leadership5 steps

The Team Is the Product

Choose the company you want to build first, pick a problem worthy of it, then treat every hire as a product launch.

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Strategy3 steps

The Three-Segment AI Market Map

Frontier models, tooling, or applied agents — pick the layer that fits your capital and your edge.

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Innovation3 steps

Three-Team Blind Briefing

Disguise the real assignment across parallel teams so creatives are free to make useful mistakes.

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Strategy4 steps

Three Worlds Theory of Change

Decide what to actually do about a hard problem by naming the pessimistic, optimistic, and pivotal worlds you might be in

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Mindset4 steps

Turn Advice Into a First-Principles Framework

Don't collect rules — ask why, triangulate three people, and rebuild the reasoning underneath.

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Leadership5 steps

Values as a Mirror

Don't author values. Interview the whole team, harvest their exact words, and write them back as a story.

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