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Artist / Scientist / General Manager Spike

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Benefit-Priming Questions (Good Friction)

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Be Someone's Favorite, Not Everyone's Okay

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Championing Big Bets Inside a Company

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Conditioned Response Interception

Spot the reflex, intercept it, choose differently: a 30-year narrative, rewritten daily

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Evidence-First Intervention Design

Literature review, then hypothesis, then 30 variants, then relative testing — never show users one design.

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Float Down River (Surrender Over Summit)

Stop climbing mountains that only reveal more mountains: go mummy mode and follow the current

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Friction Injection for Behavior Suppression

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Incentive Alignment Against the Dark Side

We are what we measure. Set the team's incentive on the behavior, and lengthen its time horizon.

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Kill NPS, Ask CSAT

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Macro / Middle-Range / Micro Research Portfolio

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Output as the Leading Indicator of Outcomes

Outcomes are the goal, but shipping rate is the only early signal you'll get that you'll hit them.

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Reflex Archaeology (Pen-and-Paper Truth Seeking)

List your most reactive moments, then ask why until it hurts or lands: every reflex has a root

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Right for Wrong

Get people to do the thing they already want to do — by giving them a shallower, more immediate reason.

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The Adaptation That Overshoots

The strategy that saved you as a child is the one wrecking your life as an adult

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The Behavioral Diagnosis

A journey map on steroids: every micro-step to the behavior, with the blocking psychology named at each one.

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The Business-Fluency Scalpel for Researchers

Learn the company's financial language so your insights land in the funnel, not in a deck.

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Marketing4 steps

The Cheap-Ad Funnel Diagnostic

Use a small paid ad to isolate whether your packaging or your content is the problem, via click-through vs subscribe.

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The Clip-Distribution Flywheel

Podcasts have no built-in discovery engine — borrow one by seeding high-quality clips on TikTok, YouTube, and Reels.

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Peak Performance4 steps

The Core-Functions Red Alarm (Burnout Triage)

Sleep, diet, exercise, play, socialisation: when the fundamentals break, your body is the scoreboard

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Marketing4 steps

The Dinner-Table Topic Test

Find your podcast's niche by noticing what makes people lean in at dinner — then force the decision with a deadline.

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Strategy3 steps

The Dogfooding Boundary Rule

Use your own product walkthrough to generate the issue list — never to prioritize it.

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The Easiness Ladder: Default, Then Rule of Thumb, Then Decision

First line of defence is always a default. If you can't default it, give people a heuristic — never a calculation.

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The Embedded Insights Partner Model

Success metric: they won't have the meeting without you.

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The Five Tools Researcher

A modern researcher carries five methods, not one — and you hire for the Swiss army knife.

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The Four Steps of Deep Personal Transformation

Suffer, seek truth, self-compassion, compassion for others: the order real change follows

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Communication6 steps

The Gnarly-Problem Offsite

Remote by default, but collapse a stalled hard decision into a tightly-agenda'd 48-hour in-person burst.

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The Gut-Check Protocol

Intuition is pattern matching and bias in the same organ — check it with System 2 and diverse guts.

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The Inertia of Society (Why Transformation Stalls)

You traded individuality for acceptance before you could speak; reclaiming it is the fear

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The Launch Momentum Playbook

Podcast charts reward subscriber velocity, not downloads — stockpile episodes, spike the launch, then bank the rank.

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Therapist Speed-Dating: Safety, Intellect, Router

Pick for felt safety first, intellect second; the rest is implementation detail

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The Roles and Responsibilities Contract

Each function writes what it expects of the others, then the group negotiates one shared contract.

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

The Should-You-Start Reality Test

Before launching a podcast, prove to yourself you'd do it for free forever — then commit to a finite season.

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Innovation4 steps

The Three B's (Behavior, Barriers, Benefits)

Pick an uncomfortably specific behavior, strip its barriers, then engineer an immediate benefit.

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Mindset4 steps

User-Centered Performance Detector

Spot the rituals where a team signals customer obsession without any intent to change the decision.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

What Are You Optimizing For?

Replace 'balance' with 'optimization' — name the one thing this horizon is for, then let the trade-offs follow.

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