[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion]] - [[3 ways to make better decisions - by thinking like a computer]] - [[4 simple ways to have a great idea]] - [[5 whys]] - [[A3]] - [[Action creates clarity]] - [[Act with intention. Avoid intentional inaction.]] - [[Adapt to the rhythms of a world in motion]] - [[Adapt your approach to the experience you wish to craft]] - [[A game is only a game if it has players. Otherwise is just theory.]] - [[Agility is anti-rigid]] - [[A good shop involves a lot of cannibalism]] - [[A lot of times, it's about working with an imperfect situation until I'm angry enough about it to actually fix it and solve the problem]] - [[Always be adapting]] - [[Always consider cost and fun when it comes to build vs. buy]] - [[Always end with action]] - [[Always look for win-win solutions]] - [[Always, you're trying to explain to people why your ideas interesting]] - [[Analysis paralysis]] - [[An idea must be grounded in reality otherwise it is a dream]] - [[Ask a new question to get a new answer]] - [[Asking yourself a question will always synthesize an answer]] - [[Ask why enough and you'll eventually discover the reason]] - [[A system is a set of related components that work together in a particular environment to perform whatever functions are required to achieve the system's objective]] - [[At every step, at every failure, you learn a little bit more about what you're looking for by identifying what you're not]] - [[Avoid being at the mercy of a machine]] - [[Avoid premature solutions for preconceived problems]] - [[Begin to create clarity]] - [[Be righteous over being right]] - [[Brace for impact and make the decision anyway]] - [[Breaking things down is a skill]] - [[Breaking things down is a skill, not instinct]] - [[Breaking things down surfaces what you know and what you don't know.]] - [[Bricolage]] - [[Bricolage all things]] - [[Building little bridges]] - [[Build mental models to enhance your focus]] - [[Build over buy]] - [[By saying yes to something, you are saying no to 100 other things.]] - [[Calm people live. Tense people die.]] - [[CANI]] - [[Comments can be a great resource]] - [[Create momentum from making many small improvements]] - [[Creating a C when going from A to B]] - [[Creative problem solving may not mean breaking the rules, but it may mean bending them]] - [[Decide faster by reducing time, choices, and consequences]] - [[Decision fatigue]] - [[Decision paralysis]] - [[Deconstruct your destination to create a path for your journey]] - [[Designing defensively is recognizing the happy path is just one of many paths]] - [[Design thinking for all. Design thinking for storybook characters.]] - [[Design thinking vs. problem solving]] - [[Details that don't matter]] - [[Develop the system around the solution, not the solution around the system.]] - [[Difficulty is in the details]] - [[Discovery through exclusion]] - [[Does the decision expand you, expand your future, or expand the possibilities of your life? If the answer is yes, then the decision is yes - no matter how terrifying it is.]] - [[Done is better than perfect]] - [[Don't allow methodology to dictate the outcome]] - [[Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain]] - [[Don't just define. Do]] - [[Don't make permanent decisions based on temporary feelings]] - [[Don't sweat the small stuff]] - [[Do the right thing even if it's difficult]] - [[Do what is essential, don't cut corners]] - [[Do what's right. Not only what you think is right]] - [[Dream big. Think small. Act now.]] - [[Even if you're not an expert in a particular domain, your outside expertise may hold the key to solving big problems within that domain.]] - [[Every aspect of problem solving is underscored by shared accountability]] - [[Every problem contains within itself the seeds of it's own solution]] - [[Explore tangents but never get lost in them]] - [[Explore what's possible, not what's expected]] - [[Eye Q often wins over IQ]] - [[Failing to effectively solve a big problem creates yet another problem]] - [[Fear, uncertainty, and doubt are your compasses towards growth]] - [[Feeding two birds with one scone]] - [[Figure out what users truly want, not what they say they want, and surprise them with that magical moment]] - [[Find a better way of doing something. Efficiency is a side-effect, not the goal.]] - [[Focus on refining ideas from reality rather than defining ideas from fantasy]] - [[Focus on the possibility of success and consider the consequence of not acting]] - [[Follow the effects to find the cause]] - [[Follow the process not the plan]] - [[Foraging for knowledge]] - [[Full stack understanding]] - [[Get out of your own way]] - [[Going fast effectively relies on rapid iteration and rapid problem-solving]] - [[H3]] - [[Have a forward-moving wavefront of which problems we're attacking seriously right now]] - [[Having all that stuff visually accessible as well as organizationally accessible is really for the problem solving that needs to happen for that shop]] - [[How to know if you're making the right decision]] - [[How to make difficult decisions in 6 simple steps]] - [[How to make smart decisions more easily]] - [[How to solve a problem in 4 steps]] - [[How to solve problems like a designer]] - [[Human beings... we are explorers, we are problem solvers, and we are storytellers.]] - [[Ideas and execution. You need both, and both need to be good.]] - [[Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.]] - [[Ideas are solutions to everyday problems]] - [[Identify what is unfamiliar by first identifying what is]] - [[I'd rather have an imperfect something than a perfect theoretical nothing]] - [[I'd rather have some ugly that solves my problem than something pretty that makes me feel good]] - [[If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings]] - [[If I could buy exactly precisely what I was going to make... I'll probably buy it.]] - [[If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses]] - [[If I needed something more than three times a year, I would buy my own version of it]] - [[If it's hard but certain, it's inconvenient. If it's hard and uncertain, it's a problem.]] - [[If we already knew what to do, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in]] - [[If you can't do the little things right, you'll never be able to do the big things right.]] - [[If you get a rough draft of your program together, you use that to figure out how you really want it to behave.]] - [[If you're able to fix the input, the output will fix themselves]] - [[If you reduce your defensiveness, you increase your ability to solve problems]] - [[I know the broad strokes but not the details]] - [[Innovation moves from the world of the impossible and impractical through the possible, expected and required]] - [[In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them.]] - [[Invention focuses on the world of the impossible. Innovation focuses on the world of the possible]] - [[Invest in beautiful defaults]] - [[Isolate the thing you want to vary]] - [[I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.]] - [[I think it's great to watch people screw up! I think it's delightful to watch people solve problems.]] - [[It is not a problem to solve. It is a process to manage.]] - [[It's like driving a car. What's important is your ability to get from A to B safely, not your encyclopedic knowledge of how cars are put together.]] - [[It's not the greatest piece of furniture that's ever built, if no one ever gets around to building it, is it?]] - [[Kaizen]] - [[Knowing what to ignore]] - [[Know your strengths. Understand the strength of others.]] - [[Learning from Toyota]] - [[Leave breadcrumbs for yourself]] - [[Make a map to navigate the world you’re in or the one you’re building]] - [[Make healing decisions]] - [[Make things work despite circumstances]] - [[Making unconscious connections is problem solving at its finest]] - [[Money buys optionality]] - [[Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them]] - [[Move forward with finesse]] - [[No, but...]] - [[No plan survives first contact with the enemy]] - [[No problem is a problem]] - [[Old ways won't open new doors]] - [[One fresh perspective can make the conditions right for something remarkable to happen]] - [[One of the best lenses for speeding up my process is to say, 'What would happen if I had to deliver this by the end of today? What would be the way in which I would do that?']] - [[Only by anticipating potential failures can you discover potential solutions for success]] - [[Overtime, cleverness falls apart. Whereas good is refined into great.]] - [[Peanut butter the process]] - [[Perform the task. Don't make performance the task.]] - [[Perspective is a powerful problem solving tool]] - [[Picking the forth]] - [[Problem solving is hard because making decisions is hard]] - [[Problem solving isn't always about logic, but the will to choose]] - [[Problem solving is our best attempt at controlling time]] - [[Process is not the enemy. Avoidance is]] - [[Progression comes from the intentional curation of choices]] - [[Prototype as if you're right. Listen as if you're wrong.]] - [[Question your questions]] - [[Rally behind that which gives you control amidst the chaos]] - [[Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.]] - [[Retrograde analysis]] - [[Scrappiness is about maximizing resourcefulness, not minimizing quality.]] - [[Scratch your own itch]] - [[Shift your perspective to see the unexpected]] - [[Simply complex systems]] - [[Sitting with the problem is the fastest way to solve it]] - [[Sit with the problem]] - [[Six thinking hats]] - [[Solve problems, don't just shout at them]] - [[Solving hard problems - Jonathan Blow]] - [[Sometimes we shy away from obvious ideas we think they're not sophisticated enough]] - [[Spend time in your approximation to become an expert in that problem space]] - [[Standardization should only come after having something to standardize]] - [[Start before you’re ready]] - [[Stop hit]] - [[Strategy must be embedded so deeply ones core values and vision that recall should be instantaneous]] - [[Success is sweetest when you achieve it across a large sample size]] - [[Sweat the details, not the distractions.]] - [[Systems design systems]] - [[Systems solve problems. Problems evolve systems.]] - [[Systems thinking is not optional]] - [[Tackling big problems with small steps]] - [[The answer to all of these questions is - it's always it's a process]] - [[The best way to understand something is by working through it, not around it]] - [[The bigness of the problem]] - [[The complex things are the things that are most broken]] - [[The difference between me and another engineer, is the fact that I said yes.]] - [[The faster you get to your approximation, the better.]] - [[The first step to solving a problem is to ask a question. The second step is to answer that question.]] - [[The future is unknown, but you can dam well try and estimate it]] - [[The impediment to action advances action]] - [[The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.]] - [[The infinite game]] - [[The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood]] - [[The obstacle is the way]] - [[The one-day build concept - Adam Savage]] - [[The quality of your solution]] - [[The unique perspective you have can result in unconventional thinking that can move the needle]] - [[The value of a prototype is the education it gives you, not the code itself]] - [[Think small to solve big problems]] - [[Time flows forever forward. Problem solving strives to create paths for time to follow.]] - [[Time spent deciding is better than time spent regretting]] - [[To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.]] - [[To look ahead, it pays to look backwards]] - [[To make is to manage]] - [[Train your brain to envision the ideals]] - [[Ultimately, problem-solving is about not giving up]] - [[View what is, as if you didn't even know how to talk]] - [[Vision without execution is just hallucination]] - [[Visualize your ideal situation in vivid detail]] - [[We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea.]] - [[What if]] - [[What people get wrong about concept art]] - [[What you need to design a complex system is not one brain - You need lots of brains.]] - [[When a really great dream shows up, grab it!]] - [[When something is complicated to do, you won't use it very often.]] - [[When to make vs. buy something - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[Wherever you ask the question, that's where the answer should be.]] - [[Within the problem lies the solution]] - [[Working backwards to solve problems]] - [[Write down your ideas. Otherwise, they'll fly away, never to return.]] - [[Yes, and...]] - [[You are not your Jira tickets]] - [[You can't always make the right decision, but you can make the decision right]] - [[You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do]] - [[You don't have a team. It's just you and a glue gun, and there's a whole crew waiting and that crew costs $10,000 a minute.]] - [[You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems]] - [[You just don't have to solve every problem at once. In fact, if you try, you will not get very far at all.]] - [[You must understand to make better]] - [[Your direction is defined by intention and inertia]] - [[Your experiences and the stakes shape the mental burden of making a decision]] - [[Your gut is your friend, and so is a cost-benefit analysis]] - [[You've got problems anyway. Pick one of them. It could be your problem.]] ## See also - [[Simplification]] - [[Strategy]]