A practical system for better thinking
When thinking harder
isn’t helping,
try a different move.
MODELS helps you find where your thinking is stuck—and choose a useful next step. For the decisions you face, the ideas you build, and the work you do with AI.
Ideas to try now. Updates on what comes next.
Meet MODELS
A way to find
the next useful move.
You can collect brilliant ideas and still get stuck. Sometimes you need a clearer picture. Sometimes a new option, a better question, or a small encounter with reality.
MODELS brings six kinds of thinking together in one practical system. Start with the part that fits your situation, try a change, and check what happens. Use more of the system when it helps.
The ambition is bigger than getting an answer today: to become more capable of making these moves yourself.
A small example · Map
Same facts.
A different next step.
An illustrative situation: a project is late. The draft is done, review has not started, and publication depends on approval.
A list of tasks
- Draft Done
- Review Not started
- Publish Waiting
It’s easy to read this as “we need to work faster.”
A map of dependencies
The dependency becomes visible.
A next step to try: arrange the review, then check whether the project moves.
The work and its status haven’t changed. The representation makes a dependency easier to notice. It doesn’t establish why review is delayed; that still needs checking.
Explore Map in the guideSix complementary questions
Find the part
that needs attention.
Map
Change how you represent the situation.
Options
Find a genuinely different path.
Destination
Define the result and what you must protect.
Evidence
Learn something that more thinking cannot settle.
Loop & dynamics
Trace what repeats, accumulates, or feeds back.
System
Arrange people, AI, and tools to work together.
Explore at your own pace