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18 frameworks
Repair Is a One-Way Street
When your partner is disgruntled, you are the customer service window — fix their microwave, not yours.
Sanderson's First Law
You may solve the climax with a special power only to the degree the audience already understands that power.
The Objectivity Battle Exit
Stop litigating who is right and start asking how the two of you are going to work this.
Harmony, Disharmony, Repair
Every relationship cycles through closeness, rupture and return — the skill is not avoiding the rupture, it is knowing the way back.
Promise, Progress, Payoff
Every story that people finish is a counter ticking upward toward something you promised on page one.
Radical Designer Ownership
If the user is confused, it is your fault — so simplify until the thing is self-correcting and write the instructions as if you were in the room.
Say the Thing You Think You Cannot Say
Detoxify your inner monologue into a question that puts the unspoken issue on the table.
Don't Hide Things in the Fog
Have the small messy conversation now, or have the unsurvivable one later.
The Serve-First Client Interview
Before you start the job, ask twenty customers what they actually want from you.
The Two-Hypothesis Answer
Never answer 'how does this work' — ask for two guesses and a way to tell them apart.
Write to Think
Make the invisible visible so you can find where your thinking breaks
Renegotiate the Terms
Treat every commitment as reopenable — own the miss, offer context, and reset expectations.
The Low-Conflict Person Screen
Screen relationships on kindness to third parties and self-awareness, not on shared interests.
The Moral Premise Flip
Before a field can build infrastructure, someone has to move it from crime to acceptable, and that fight is fought in vocabulary.
Constraint-Induced Authenticity
Occupy the performer with a second task so the performance stops and the person shows up
The Vampire Rule: Suspense over Surprise
Get invited and announce the challenge, turning surprise into suspense
Jazz-Based Performance: Keep Your Options Open
Improvise with the audience and hold many paths so a flub becomes a pivot
Paltering: Spotting Truth Used to Deceive
Learn how true statements in sequence craft a false belief, so you can catch it