Solve for what would guarantee failure and refuse to do that, instead of solving directly for success.
It works because failure modes are fewer, more concrete, and far more reliably identified than success paths. “All I want to know is where I am going to die, so I will never go there.”
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example-of →Hold a latticework of models from many disciplines — a single-discipline mind bends every problem to fit its one tool.Inversion is the single most portable tile in the latticework, borrowed from algebra and applied everywhere.