Recipes

Recipes chain several skills into one end-to-end job, passing a compressed artifact at each step.

• audit reasoning - Check whether a conclusion is sound before trusting it, by sorting evidence from inference, reconstructing the inferential climb, and reviewing through separated lenses.
• expand options - Break past the obvious option set by reframing the problem, transforming the seed with SCAMPER, and reversing its foundational assumptions, then shortlisting candidates.
• first principles - Reason from fundamentals by decomposing a problem to its irreducible level, then stripping the inherited assumptions, so you rebuild from what is actually necessary rather than from convention or analogy.
• idea quality audit - Decide which of a batch of candidate ideas are worth committing to, by scoring them on explicit quality dimensions and then adversarially stress-testing the strongest few.
• reframe problem - Make sure you are solving the right problem before generating solutions, by restating it, sorting evidence from inference, and reviewing it through separated lenses.
• stress test decision - Pressure-test a consequential decision before committing, by comparing options, surfacing the conditions that must hold, imagining failure, and sanity-checking the estimate against base rates.