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eat-that-frog-kindle-highlights.json

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open-mode-favorite-toys.json

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  "author": "Gary Basin (@garybasin)",
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    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Sensory: Explore the problem through different senses. How does it taste and smell? How does it feel in your gut? What does it look like?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Miracle: You wake up and the problem is entirely solved. As concretely as possible, what do you see such that you know the problem is solved?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Ontology: What distinctions would a good answer make? What sort of question would make those same distinctions?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Thinking hats: What are the facts, what can almost everyone agree on? What are the potential upsides, where can we unlock value? What can go wrong, where are the pitfalls and dangers, how do you expect to fail?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Shadow Elephant: What is the elephant in the room? What are we afraid to talk about or look at? Try it on for a moment and see how the problem changes"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Key Assumptions: Are there any key assumptions that you may be taking for granted? What does the problem look like if they’re false? Look for the useful bits within the absurdity"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Gestalt: How does your problem relate to the rest of the world? Which things are nearby, how is the problem caused and what is caused by it?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Thesaurus: Alter the literal phrasing to see if alternative connotations make the problem seem different."},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Invert: Try the opposite. What does failure look like and how can you avoid it?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Occam’s razor: What’s the simplest possible workable solution?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Goldilocks: Vary an idea along its dimensions. Try extremizing. What would definitely be too much, too little?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Rubber duck: Explain the problem and ideas to a child, or an expert. How do they respond?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Stack Trace: Why are we generating the kinds of ideas we are? Where did the problem come from and how does that inform how we think about it?"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Aristotle: What purpose are you trying to accomplish and what will it look like when you’re done?"},
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    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Backward chain: Start with a description of what the world looks like when the problem is solved (Aristotle), then work backwards to find steps to get there"},
    {"location": {"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCpYUjYcSdhS9jqmCFBGHNTsHm5oe7quWDklh_IDZlI/edit#"}, "note": null, "isNoteOnly": false, "text": "Forward chain: Start with current resources and capabilities -- how can they be best leveraged to attack this problem?"},
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