Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Before adopting a practice from another era or scale…
When importing best practices or frameworks from another era or scale, explicitly verify that the contextual conditions (organizational size, technological infrastructure, market maturity) that made the practice optimal still hold before adopting it.
Check every important message for SCQA
Before sending any important communication, apply the SCQA test—verify the message includes Situation (what reader knows), Complication (what changed), Question (what this raises), and Answer (your point)—adding any missing layer before transmission.
Test every classification for MECE
For every pair of categories in a classification system, verify that no item can legitimately belong to both (mutual exclusivity test), and verify that no domain item falls outside all categories (collective exhaustiveness test).
Every decision framework needs five explicit components
For each decision framework you build, explicitly include five components: evaluation criteria, sequence of evaluation, time budget, kill conditions (automatic disqualifiers), and decision rights (who decides, who is consulted).
Run four diagnostic questions in 60 seconds to select…
Before selecting a decision framework, run four diagnostic questions in sequence: (1) How reversible? (2) How many competing criteria? (3) What time horizon of consequences? (4) What is the cost of analysis itself?—using the answers to converge on the appropriate framework class within 60 seconds.