Thinking Frameworks

Route to the right thinking methodology based on domain and problem type.

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Domain	Diagnose	Decide	Understand	Create	Evaluate	Predict	Optimize
Coding/Debugging	Five Whys Plus, Scientific Method	Reversibility	Systems Thinking, Feedback Loops	First Principles, TRIZ	Red Team, Steel-manning	Probabilistic, Bayesian	Theory of Constraints
Architecture	Systems Thinking, Five Whys	Reversibility, Opportunity Cost	Systems Thinking, Leverage Points	First Principles, TRIZ	Lindy Effect, Circle of Competence	Fermi Estimation	Theory of Constraints
Product	Five Whys Plus, Jobs to Be Done	Reversibility, Regret Minimization	Jobs to Be Done, Cynefin	Effectuation, First Principles	Scientific Method, Pre-mortem	Bayesian, Probabilistic	Theory of Constraints
Strategy	Systems Thinking, Archetypes	Reversibility, Regret Minimization	Cynefin, Feedback Loops	Effectuation, First Principles	Red Team, Pre-mortem	Second-Order Thinking	Leverage Points
Personal	Five Whys Plus	Regret Minimization, Reversibility	Circle of Competence, Cynefin	Effectuation, First Principles	Pre-mortem, Steel-manning	Probabilistic	Opportunity Cost
Abstract/Analytical	Scientific Method, Socratic	Bayesian, Probabilistic	Map-Territory, Systems Thinking	Thought Experiment, First Principles	Steel-manning, Occam's Razor	Fermi Estimation	Via Negativa
Risk/Safety	Five Whys Plus, Pre-mortem	Reversibility, Margin of Safety	Pre-mortem, Red Team	Inversion, Via Negativa	Red Team, Pre-mortem	Bayesian, Probabilistic	Margin of Safety
Innovation	Scientific Method, Five Whys	Effectuation, Reversibility	Cynefin, Systems Thinking	First Principles, TRIZ	Red Team, Pre-mortem	Second-Order Thinking	Leverage Points

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