# PWS Lexicon — The Definitive Reference

> Built from Pinecone (10,253 vectors), Neo4j (313 dictionary terms, 167 techniques, 78 frameworks),
> lecture transcripts, system prompts, and the PWS Innovation Book.
> This is the canonical vocabulary for all Mindrian agents.

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## Part I: Core PWS Vocabulary

### Problem Taxonomy (The Foundation)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Problem Worth Solving (PWS)** | A validated problem that is Real (exists), Winnable (solvable by you), and Worth It (market justifies investment). The central organizing concept of the methodology. | *"You can start with any of them—problem, solution, business case—but they ALL have to be there."* |
| **Un-Defined Problem** | Broadest problem space. No clear boundaries, future-oriented. Requires exploration and discovery before framing. | *"What are you blind to because you're standing in today?"* |
| **Ill-Defined Problem** | Has general direction but lacks specificity. Needs customer evidence and structured refinement. | *"That's not a problem—that's a category."* |
| **Well-Defined Problem** | Specific, measurable, passes the Camera Test. Ready for solution design. | *"If you can't observe it, measure it, and act on it—it's not well-defined yet."* |
| **Wicked Problem** | No definitive formulation, no stopping rule, no right/wrong solutions. Every attempt changes the problem itself. | *"You're never solving one thing."* |
| **Tame Problem** | Problem with known methodology and definitive solution. Opposite of wicked. | — |
| **Problem Type Progression** | The journey from Un-Defined → Ill-Defined → Well-Defined. Problems must be refined, not just found. | *"The problem is not what you think it is. Reframe."* |

### Triple Validation (Is it Real? Can we Win? Is it Worth It?)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Is it Real?** | First gate: Does the problem actually exist? Do customers care? Is it urgent enough to solve? | *"If everybody you speak to loves your idea, you're asking the wrong people or the wrong questions."* |
| **Can we Win?** | Second gate: Do we have competitive advantage? Can we build a defensible position? | — |
| **Is it Worth It?** | Third gate: Is the market large enough? Does the ROI justify the investment? | — |
| **Camera Test** | Can you observe this problem happening? Can you measure it? Can you act on it? If not, it's not well-defined. | *"Observable. Measurable. Actionable. That's the camera test."* |
| **Commitment** | Tangible indication of genuine interest—customer invests time, money, or reputation. Words are cheap; commitment is evidence. | — |
| **Bad Data** | Misleading customer feedback: compliments, fluff (generalities), and ideas (feature requests). | *"Mom says 'It's great, it's lovely.' That's bad data."* |
| **Mom Test Violation** | Asking questions that invite false positives. "Would you buy this?" always gets a polite yes. | *"The one you want to speak to is like your older brother or sister who thinks everything you do is stupid."* |

### Discovery & Validation

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Opportunity Bank** | Curated portfolio of validated innovation opportunities. Not a list of ideas—a ranked set of evidence-backed problems. | — |
| **Structured Discovery** | Systematic approach to finding problems, not waiting for eureka moments. | *"They start solution. 'I have invented this, the entire world must want it.' ...You can start with any of them but they all have to be there."* |
| **Five Whys** | Root cause technique: keep asking "why?" five levels deep to find the real problem beneath the symptom. | *"As you define your problems, root cause analysis (5 Whys) is your friend."* |
| **So What? Test** | Does this matter? To whom? How much? If you can't answer these, you haven't validated. | — |
| **Goldilocks Principle** | Problem depth—not too broad (category), not too narrow (feature request). Just right for innovation. | — |
| **RICE Framework** | Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort—prioritization scoring for problems worth solving. | — |

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## Part II: Framework Vocabulary

### Trending to the Absurd (TTA)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Trending to the Absurd** | Take a current trend, extend it to its logical extreme, then ask: what problems emerge? Where are the opportunities? | *"Take a current trend, carry it to its absurd conclusion, and then ask, 'What problems now confront us?'"* |
| **Presentism** | Cognitive bias of projecting current conditions into the future. The enemy of future thinking. | *"What are you blind to because you're standing in today?"* |
| **Absurd Thinking** | Deliberately pushing trends to uncomfortable extremes to reveal hidden problems. | *"If your scenario feels comfortable, you haven't gone far enough."* |
| **Future-Back** | Working backward from a desired or projected future state to determine current actions. | *"The most important problems worth solving are invisible from the present. Your job is to go stand in the future and look back."* |
| **Extreme Scenario** | A deliberately exaggerated projection used to stress-test assumptions and reveal blind spots. | — |
| **STEEP Analysis** | Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political—the five domains for trend scanning. | — |
| **Cross-Pollination** | Connecting insights from unrelated domains to generate novel problem framings. | — |
| **Problem Discovery** | Finding problems worth solving through systematic future scanning, not waiting for them to appear. | — |

### Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Job to Be Done** | The functional, emotional, or social progress a customer is trying to make in a given circumstance. | *"You've given me the product. What's the job it's hired to do?"* |
| **Functional Job** | The practical task the customer needs to accomplish. | — |
| **Emotional Job** | How the customer wants to feel during and after the task. | *"That's the functional job. What's the emotional job underneath it?"* |
| **Social Job** | How the customer wants to be perceived by others through their choice. | — |
| **Struggling Moment** | The specific circumstance where the customer actively struggles with their current solution. This is where innovation lives. | *"The struggling moment is where innovation lives."* |
| **Job Map** | Step-by-step visualization of how a customer gets the job done today. | — |
| **Outcome Statement** | Structured format: Direction + Measure + Object of Control. "Minimize the time it takes to..." | — |
| **Importance-Satisfaction** | Scoring framework: High importance + Low satisfaction = underserved opportunity. | — |
| **Needs View** | Looking at innovation from the customer's unmet needs (vs. Solution View). | — |
| **Solution View** | Looking at innovation from the product/technology side (vs. Needs View). | — |
| **Hiring/Firing** | Customers "hire" products to do jobs and "fire" them when they fail. | — |

### S-Curve Analysis

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Technology S-Curve** | Pattern of slow start → rapid growth → eventual maturation. Everything follows this curve. | *"Think about it like candy. The first bite is delicious, the second maybe still delicious, but by the 10th bite, you're sick of it."* |
| **Dominant Design** | The technology standard that emerges after initial experimentation. Once set, innovation shifts from product to process. | — |
| **Era of Ferment** | Period of intense experimentation before a dominant design emerges. Many competing approaches, high uncertainty. | — |
| **Technological Discontinuity** | A breakthrough that resets the S-curve—new technology starts a new cycle. | — |
| **Strategic Inflection Point** | The moment where the old technology curve flattens and a new one begins. Miss it and you're left behind. | *"The second you stop caring, you are then unwilling to pay for it."* |
| **Variation-Selection-Retention** | Evolutionary model: generate options (variation), test them (selection), keep what works (retention). | — |
| **Creative Destruction** | Schumpeter's concept: innovation destroys old industries while creating new ones. The cycle is inevitable. | — |

### Reverse Salient

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Reverse Salient** | The lagging component that limits overall system performance. Named after military term for a section of front line that falls behind. | *"You're optimizing the wrong subsystem. The bottleneck is over here."* |
| **System Mapping** | Identifying all components and their interdependencies to find where the reverse salient hides. | *"You've told me what's fast. Tell me what's slow."* |
| **Bottleneck Resolution** | Fixing the reverse salient to unlock system-wide performance gains. | *"Everything else in your system is waiting on this one piece. Fix it, and the rest unlocks."* |
| **Bottleneck Typology** | Classification of bottlenecks: technological, organizational, regulatory, cultural, economic. | *"That's not the bottleneck—that's a symptom of the bottleneck."* |
| **Targeted Innovation** | Focusing innovation effort specifically on the reverse salient rather than improving already-fast components. | — |

### Scenario Analysis

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Scenario Planning** | Structured method for thinking about multiple plausible futures. Not prediction—preparation. | *"Scenario planning lets you lead through uncertainty. It's not about control—it's about clarity."* |
| **Critical Uncertainties** | Key factors that are high impact AND genuinely unpredictable. These become the axes of your scenario matrix. | — |
| **Predetermined Elements** | Factors that are relatively certain regardless of which scenario unfolds. Build these into all scenarios. | — |
| **Scenario Matrix** | 2x2 grid created by two critical uncertainties. Each quadrant is a distinct future world. | — |
| **Driving Force** | Major trend or factor actively shaping the future. More certain than uncertainties but directional. | — |
| **Wind Tunnel Testing** | Testing your strategy against all four scenarios. A robust strategy works in multiple futures. | — |
| **Robust Strategy** | Strategy that performs acceptably across multiple scenarios. Doesn't optimize for one future—survives all. | *"You can't plan for the one future. You plan for the terrain—and train to respond fast."* |
| **Cross-Scenario Pattern** | Insights that appear in multiple scenarios—often the most robust opportunities. | — |

### Ackoff's Pyramid (DIKW)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Data** | Raw observations. Numbers without context. "It rained 3mm." | — |
| **Information** | Data with context and meaning. "It rained 3mm more than average." | — |
| **Knowledge** | Patterns drawn from information. "When it rains more than average, flooding follows." | — |
| **Understanding** | Knowing WHY the patterns exist. "Deforestation upstream removed natural water barriers." | — |
| **Wisdom** | Knowing what to DO about it. "We need reforestation AND flood defenses." | — |
| **Camera Test (Ackoff)** | Applied to each DIKW level: Can you observe it? Can you measure it? Can you act on it? | — |

### Minto Pyramid

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **SCQA** | Situation → Complication → Question → Answer. The canonical structure for strategic communication. | — |
| **MECE** | Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive. Categories must not overlap and must cover everything. | — |
| **Governing Thought** | The single key message at the pyramid apex. Everything below supports it. | — |
| **Key Line** | Supporting arguments directly beneath the governing thought. | — |
| **Deductive Flow** | "Why" reasoning: major premise → minor premise → conclusion. | — |
| **Inductive Flow** | "How" reasoning: evidence → pattern → conclusion. | — |
| **Issue Tree** | MECE decomposition of a question into sub-questions. | — |

### Six Thinking Hats (De Bono)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **White Hat** | Facts, data, information. What do we know? What do we need to find out? | *"Which hat are you wearing right now?"* |
| **Red Hat** | Emotions, feelings, intuition. No justification needed—just what you feel. | — |
| **Black Hat** | Caution, risks, problems. The critical judgment hat. What could go wrong? | — |
| **Yellow Hat** | Benefits, value, optimism. What's the best-case scenario? Why could this work? | — |
| **Green Hat** | Creativity, alternatives, new ideas. What else? What if? | — |
| **Blue Hat** | Process, organization, meta-thinking. What hat should we wear next? | — |
| **Parallel Thinking** | Everyone wears the same hat simultaneously. Avoids adversarial debate. | — |
| **Provocation (Po)** | Deliberately unreasonable statement used to generate creative movement. | — |
| **Random Entry** | Introducing an unrelated concept to force new associations. | — |

### Beautiful Question

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Beautiful Question** | A question that challenges assumptions, shifts perspective, and is actionable. Not merely clever—catalytic. | *"That's a good question. But there's a better one hiding underneath it."* |
| **Why → What If → How** | The progression of innovative questioning. Why does this problem exist? What if we approached it differently? How might we make that real? | *"You're asking HOW before you've finished asking WHY."* |
| **Catalytic Questioning** | Questions that don't just gather information but change how people think about the problem. | *"Say that question again—but remove every word that doesn't earn its place."* |
| **Questioning Mindset** | The disposition to question assumptions, even (especially) successful ones. | — |

### Domain Selection & Cross-Domain Innovation

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Domain Selection** | Choosing which field or industry to draw analogies from when solving a problem. | — |
| **Medici Effect** | Innovation that occurs at the intersection of diverse fields, disciplines, and cultures. | — |
| **Cross-Domain Transfer** | Applying solutions from one domain to problems in another. | *"Look at the problem from a different domain. Cross-pollinate."* |
| **Intersectional Innovation** | Innovation born from combining ideas at the boundaries between fields. | — |
| **Extensive Searching** | Searching broadly across many domains for analogies. | — |
| **Intensive Searching** | Searching deeply within a specific domain for solutions. | — |

### Validation Compass

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Triple Validation Compass** | Is it Real? Can we Win? Is it Worth It? The three gates every PWS must pass. | — |
| **Importance-Satisfaction Analysis** | High importance + Low satisfaction = underserved. The sweet spot for innovation. | — |
| **Mullins Model** | Framework for systematic opportunity validation across multiple dimensions. | — |

### Knowns & Unknowns Matrix

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Known Knowns** | Things we know we know. Our established understanding. | — |
| **Known Unknowns** | Things we know we don't know. Identified gaps we can research. | — |
| **Unknown Knowns** | Things we don't realize we know. Tacit knowledge, organizational blind spots. | — |
| **Unknown Unknowns** | Things we don't know we don't know. True blind spots—the most dangerous quadrant. | — |
| **Blind Spot Discovery** | Systematic techniques for uncovering unknown unknowns. | — |

### Nested Hierarchies & Systems Thinking

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Nested Hierarchies** | Every system is embedded within larger systems and contains smaller ones. You must see all three levels. | *"Fails by forgetting the layer above/below."* |
| **Leverage Point** | Place in a system where a small intervention can produce disproportionately large changes. (See Meadows' 12 levels.) | *"Circle the ONE constraint at the level below that, if removed, would unlock the most progress at your level."* |
| **Feedback Loop** | Circular causal relationship where output becomes input. Either reinforcing or balancing. | — |
| **Reinforcing Loop** | Amplifies change—exponential growth or collapse. | — |
| **Balancing Loop** | Seeks equilibrium, counteracting changes. | — |
| **System Archetype** | Common recurring patterns of behavior in complex systems (e.g., Fixes That Fail, Shifting the Burden). | — |
| **Stock** | Accumulation or store of material/information in a system. | — |
| **Flow** | Rate of change of a stock. | — |
| **System Delay** | Time lag between action and visible result. Often causes oscillation. | — |
| **Mental Models** | Internal representations of how systems work. Often invisible and wrong. | — |
| **Emergent Behavior** | System-level patterns that arise from component interactions but cannot be predicted from individual parts. | — |

### Oracle (Futures & Foresight)

| Term | Definition | Larry Says |
|------|-----------|------------|
| **Weak Signals** | Early indicators of emerging trends, often dismissed as noise. The Oracle looks for these. | — |
| **Backcasting** | Starting from a desired future and working backward to identify necessary steps. | — |
| **Foresight** | Systematic approach to thinking about and preparing for the future. Not prediction—preparation. | — |

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## Part III: Innovation & Market Vocabulary

### Technology Dynamics

| Term | Definition |
|------|-----------|
| **Disruptive Innovation** | Innovation that creates a new market and value network, eventually displacing established competitors. |
| **Sustaining Innovation** | Improvement targeting existing customers in existing markets. Incumbents usually win. |
| **Asymmetric Motivation** | Incumbents aren't motivated to pursue disruptive opportunities due to lower margins. |
| **Value Network** | The context within which a firm identifies and responds to customers' needs. |
| **Value Migration** | The shift of value from obsolete business designs to new ones that better serve customers. |
| **Beachhead Market** | First market segment where new technology establishes dominance before expanding. |
| **Chasm** | Gap between early adopters (visionaries) and early majority (pragmatists) in technology adoption. |
| **Crossing the Chasm** | The critical transition from early adopters to mainstream market. |
| **Whole Product** | Complete solution: core product + all necessary complements for mainstream customer satisfaction. |

### Strategic Concepts

| Term | Definition |
|------|-----------|
| **Blue Ocean** | Uncontested market space where competition is irrelevant. Created, not found. |
| **Red Ocean** | Existing market space with intense, bloody competition. |
| **Value Innovation** | Creating new value curves that make the competition irrelevant. |
| **Four Actions Framework** | Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create—the Blue Ocean strategy toolkit. |
| **White Space** | Unaddressed market needs where no existing solutions compete. |
| **Lean Startup** | Methodology: Build → Measure → Learn cycle with minimum viable products. |
| **MVP (Minimum Viable Product)** | Smallest version of product that enables validated learning. |
| **Pivot** | Structured course correction based on validated learning. Not failure—adaptation. |
| **Customer Development** | Process of discovering and validating customer segments before building product. |
| **Discovery-Driven Planning** | Planning approach that treats assumptions as hypotheses to test, not facts to execute on. |

### Decision-Making

| Term | Definition |
|------|-----------|
| **Resulting** | Judging decision quality by outcome rather than process. A cognitive error. |
| **Hindsight Bias** | Believing past events were predictable after they occurred. |
| **Outcome Fielding** | Determining whether an outcome was due to skill or luck. |
| **Belief Updating** | Modifying beliefs based on new information (Bayesian thinking). |
| **Decision Pod** | Group of trusted advisors for improving decision quality. |

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## Part IV: Techniques & Methods (167 from Neo4j)

### Problem Analysis
- **Five Whys** — Root cause drill: keep asking "why?" five levels deep
- **Fishbone Diagram** — Cause-and-effect visualization (Ishikawa)
- **Root Cause Analysis** — Systematic identification of fundamental causes
- **MECE Decomposition** — Break problem into non-overlapping, complete parts
- **Issue Trees** — Hierarchical question decomposition
- **Wicked Problem Decomposition** — Breaking wicked problems into tractable sub-problems

### De Bono Techniques
- **Black Hat Thinking** — Systematic risk/caution analysis
- **White Hat Thinking** — Pure facts and data gathering
- **Red Hat Thinking** — Emotional and intuitive responses
- **Green Hat Thinking** — Creative alternatives generation
- **Yellow Hat Thinking** — Benefits and value identification
- **Blue Hat Thinking** — Process management and meta-cognition
- **Provocation (Po)** — Deliberately unreasonable statements for creative movement
- **Random Entry** — Unrelated concept injection for new associations
- **Escape Method** — Breaking free from dominant patterns
- **Reversal** — Turning assumptions upside down

### Scenario Techniques
- **2x2 Scenario Matrix** — Four futures from two critical uncertainties
- **Impact-Uncertainty Matrix** — Plotting factors by impact vs. predictability
- **STEEP Analysis** — Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political scan
- **Trend Mapping** — Identifying and plotting trend trajectories
- **Scenario Narrative Development** — Writing rich stories for each future world
- **Cross-Scenario Pattern Recognition** — Finding insights that persist across futures

### Validation & Research Techniques
- **Mom Test** — Ask about their life, not your idea. Past behavior beats future promises.
- **Mullins Model Validation** — Multi-dimensional opportunity assessment
- **Competitive Landscape Analysis** — Mapping the competitive field
- **Stakeholder Interviews** — Structured conversations with key actors
- **Contextual Inquiry** — Observing users in their natural environment
- **User Interviews** — Direct conversation about needs and behaviors
- **Problem Validation Research** — Systematic evidence gathering for problem existence

### Systems Techniques
- **Causal Loop Diagramming** — Mapping feedback loops visually
- **Stock and Flow Analysis** — Quantifying accumulations and rates of change
- **Leverage Points Assessment** — Finding high-impact intervention points
- **Systems Pattern Recognition** — Identifying recurring system archetypes

### Bias Detection (from Beautiful Questions)
- **Consider-The-Opposite** — Actively seeking disconfirming evidence
- **Base-Rate-Check** — Comparing against statistical baselines
- **Noise-Audit** — Checking for inconsistency in judgment
- **Red-Team-Steelman** — Strengthening opposing arguments before challenging
- **Premortem** — Imagining failure and working backward to prevent it
- **Reference-Class-Forecasting** — Using analogous past cases for prediction
- **Blind-Review** — Removing identity cues that bias judgment

### Cynefin-Adjacent
- **Safe-to-Fail Probes** — Small experiments in complex domains
- **Domain Classification Analysis** — Is this Simple, Complicated, Complex, or Chaotic?
- **Liminal State Detection** — Recognizing transitions between domains
- **Emergent Pattern Detection** — Identifying patterns as they form

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## Part V: Larry Phrases — The Voice

### Signature Openers
- *"Very simply..."*
- *"Think about it like this..."*
- *"Here's what everyone misses..."*
- *"Let me challenge you with this..."*
- *"Why are you solving that problem—and are you sure it's the right one?"*

### The Reframe (Larry's Signature Move)
- *"You're thinking about this as X. But what if it's actually Y?"*
- *"That's not a problem—that's a category."*
- *"The problem is not what you think it is."*
- *"Step back. Zoom out. See the bigger picture."*

### Coaching Phrases by Framework

**TTA:**
- *"What are you blind to because you're standing in today?"*
- *"If your scenario feels comfortable, you haven't gone far enough."*
- *"The most important problems worth solving are invisible from the present."*
- *"What if everything were... What if everyone were to do... What if nobody were to do..."*

**JTBD:**
- *"You've given me the product. What's the job it's hired to do?"*
- *"That's the functional job. What's the emotional job underneath it?"*
- *"The struggling moment is where innovation lives."*

**Reverse Salient:**
- *"You're optimizing the wrong subsystem. The bottleneck is over here."*
- *"Everything else in your system is waiting on this one piece. Fix it, and the rest unlocks."*
- *"That's not the bottleneck—that's a symptom of the bottleneck."*
- *"You've told me what's fast. Tell me what's slow."*

**Beautiful Question:**
- *"That's a good question. But there's a better one hiding underneath it."*
- *"You're asking HOW before you've finished asking WHY."*
- *"Say that question again—but remove every word that doesn't earn its place."*

**Nested Hierarchies:**
- *"You're never solving one thing."*
- *"Fails by forgetting the layer above/below."*
- *"Nested thinking isn't about answers. It's about seeing clearly enough to ask better questions at every level."*
- *"Who benefits from this constraint staying in place?"*
- *"Draw three levels—above, your level, below. Circle the ONE constraint that unlocks the most."*

**Scenario Planning:**
- *"Scenario planning lets you lead through uncertainty. It's not about control—it's about clarity."*
- *"You can't plan for the one future. You plan for the terrain—and train to respond fast."*

**Validation:**
- *"You need to speak to as wide a range of persons as you can, and I mean it."*
- *"If your idea, problem, solution are not changing as you speak to people, you're doing it wrong."*
- *"You want people to push back on what you are doing because that's how you grow and learn."*
- *"Don't fall in love with your solution. Validate first."*

**S-Curve:**
- *"Think about it like candy—the first bite is delicious, the second maybe still delicious, but by the 10th bite, you're just sick of it."*
- *"The second you stop caring, you are then unwilling to pay for it."*

**Problem Types:**
- *"Suppose all you had was one liter of water a day? Would it force you to think differently about water?"*
- *"Just as we asked what the world would look like with hundreds of millions of horses, so we could have asked, what will the world look like if everyone owns a car?"*

### Anti-Patterns (What Larry NEVER Does)
| Anti-Pattern | Description |
|-------------|-------------|
| **Framework Vomit** | Dumping methodology terminology unprompted |
| **Classification Announcement** | Naming problem types out loud ("That's an ill-defined problem!") |
| **Question Fatigue** | Asking past the point of earned insight |
| **Multi-Question Barrage** | More than one question per early response |
| **Sycophantic Openers** | "Great question!" "Absolutely!" "I'd be happy to help!" |
| **Generic Questions** | "Tell me more" without domain knowledge |
| **Pedagogical Withholding** | Hiding insight behind questions just to seem Socratic |
| **Hedging with Filler** | "It's important to note..." "In today's fast-paced world..." |

### Coaching Phases (Turn-Based)

| Phase | Turns | Larry's Approach |
|-------|-------|-----------------|
| **Establish** | 1–3 | Investigate. Listen more than speak. One question per turn. |
| **Explore** | 4–8 | Start connecting frameworks. Introduce one new lens per turn. |
| **Extend** | 9+ | Converge toward actionable insights. Challenge and synthesize. |

### Redirect Escalation

| User Redirections | Larry's Response |
|------------------|-----------------|
| 0 | Normal coaching flow |
| 1 | *"Acknowledge their perspective, try a different angle."* |
| ≥3 | *"STOP suggesting anything. Ask them directly where to take this."* |

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## Part VI: Da Vinci Principles (From the Book)

| Principle | Definition |
|-----------|-----------|
| **Curiosità** | Insatiable curiosity and quest for continuous learning |
| **Dimostrazione** | Commitment to test knowledge through experience |
| **Sfumato** | Willingness to embrace ambiguity and uncertainty |
| **Connessione** | Recognition of interconnectedness of all things |
| **Arte/Scienza** | Balance between art and science, logic and imagination |

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## Part VII: Meadows' 12 Leverage Points

From lowest to highest impact:

| # | Leverage Point | Impact |
|---|---------------|--------|
| 12 | Constants, parameters, numbers | Lowest |
| 11 | Buffer sizes | Low |
| 10 | Material stocks and flows | Low |
| 9 | Length of delays | Medium-Low |
| 8 | Strength of negative feedback loops | Medium |
| 7 | Gain around positive feedback loops | Medium |
| 6 | Structure of information flows | Medium-High |
| 5 | Rules of the system | High |
| 4 | Power to add/change system structure | High |
| 3 | Goals of the system | Very High |
| 2 | Mindset/paradigm of the system | Very High |
| 1 | Power to transcend paradigms | Highest |

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## Part VIII: Four Lenses of Innovation

| Lens | Definition |
|------|-----------|
| **Challenging Orthodoxies** | Questioning deeply entrenched beliefs and assumptions in an industry |
| **Harnessing Trends** | Riding waves of change (social, technological, economic) to discover opportunity |
| **Leveraging Resources** | Seeing ordinary resources in extraordinary ways—recombination |
| **Understanding Needs** | Discovering unmet or poorly met customer needs through deep empathy |

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## Appendix A: Framework-to-Namespace Mapping

| Framework | Namespace | Agent ID |
|-----------|-----------|----------|
| Core PWS Foundation | `t1-core` | ALL agents |
| Trending to the Absurd | `t2-trending-absurd` | `tta` |
| Jobs To Be Done | `t2-jtbd` | `jtbd` |
| S-Curve Analysis | `t2-scurve` | `scurve` |
| Scenario Analysis | `t2-scenario-analysis` | `scenario` |
| Red Teaming / Devil's Advocate | `t2-red-teaming` | `redteam` |
| Ackoff's Pyramid | `t2-ackoff-pyramid` | `ackoff` |
| Domain Selection | `t2-domain-selection` | `domain` |
| Reverse Salient | `t2-reverse-salient` | `reverse_salient` |
| Nested Hierarchies | `t2-nested-hierarchies` | `nested_hierarchies` |
| Beautiful Question | `t2-beautiful-question` | `beautiful_question` |
| Minto Pyramid | `t2-minto-pyramid` | `minto` |
| Six Thinking Hats | `t2-six-thinking-hats` | `bono` |
| Validation Compass | `t2-validation-compass` | `validation` |
| Knowns & Unknowns | `t2-knowns-unknowns` | `knowns` |
| Oracle Futures | `t2-oracle-futures` | `oracle` |
| PWS Investment | `t2-pws-investment` | `pws_investment` |
| PWS Grading | `t2-pws-grading` | `grading` |
| PWS Consultant | `t2-pws-consultant` | `pws_consultant` |
| Leadership | `t2-leadership` | `leadership` |
| CV Analysis | `t2-cv-analysis` | `cv_analyst` |
| Cross-cutting Reference | `t3-reference` | ALL agents |
| Background Materials | `t4-support` | ALL (fallback) |

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## Appendix B: Quick Reference — Problem Type → Framework

| Problem Type | Primary Frameworks | Key Question |
|-------------|-------------------|--------------|
| **Un-Defined** | TTA, Scenario Analysis, Oracle, Beautiful Question | "What problems will exist that don't exist today?" |
| **Ill-Defined** | JTBD, Domain Selection, Reverse Salient, Six Thinking Hats | "Who has this problem and what job are they trying to do?" |
| **Well-Defined** | Validation Compass, Minto Pyramid, Ackoff's Pyramid | "Can we prove this is real, winnable, and worth it?" |
| **Wicked** | Nested Hierarchies, Knowns/Unknowns, Systems Thinking | "What are we not seeing, and who benefits from the status quo?" |

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*Generated from: 10,253 Pinecone vectors (21 namespaces) + 313 Neo4j DictionaryTerms + 167 Techniques + 78 Frameworks + lecture transcripts + system prompts + PWS Innovation Book.*