Quick Recipes

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• The So-That Ladder

  Add 'so that...' to your goal 3 times until you reach a state that's valuable in itself.

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• Metric Courtroom

  Put your metric on trial for 40 seconds: what does it predict, how can it be gamed, and what would expose the game?

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• The Beneficiary Seat

  Draw 3 seats, who benefits, who pays, and who can veto, and put a named person in each.

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• The After Photo

  Imagine one photo before and after success: what could an observer literally see done differently in 30 days?

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• The Counterfactual Twin

  Compare your plan against a twin reality using the same time and money on the best alternative.

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• Draw the Enough Line

  Mark the smallest amount that solves the problem and the point where extra gains stop mattering.

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• Floor Before Flight

  Complete 'even if we hit the goal, it's failure unless ____' and protect those 1 or 2 conditions.

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• Install a Ceiling Cap

  Set a hard maximum on the resource being overdrawn and decide in advance where spare capacity goes.

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• The Goldilocks Band

  Replace an exact target with 3 zones, too little, workable, too much, each with an observable boundary.

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• The Winning-Losing Flip

  Write 3 endings to 'we hit the target, but it was a real failure because...' and turn the most plausible into an anti-goal.

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• The Sacrifice Budget

  Price the maximum time, money, risk, and stress you'll spend, and mark the one resource that can't be traded away.

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• The Empty-Chair Veto

  Give the absent person who absorbs consequences a seat, voice their strongest objection, and decide if it's a veto, floor, or question.

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• Goal Triage

  Sort conflicting outcomes into must-protect, threshold, optimize, and bonus, plus one tie-break rule.

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• The Three Clocks

  Write Now, Next, and Later with one desired state and one cost under each, and stop borrowing from protected later states.

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• The Lead–Lag Couple

  Pair one weekly steerable behavior with one delayed real result, and set a date to distrust the lead if the lag doesn't move.

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• The Bad-Weather Test

  Stress the goal with 3 ordinary shocks and design a minimum version that survives them.

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• Turn It into a Two-Way Door

  Shrink a big uncertain commitment to about 10%, keep the exit open, and name the evidence needed before going all in.

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• Learn Before Earn

  When the mechanism is unknown, run the cheapest decision-linked test with a deadline before setting a performance target.

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• The Minimum Viable Win

  Find the smallest real result that would change your next decision or prove the core mechanism.

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• The Stoplight Contract

  Precommit green, amber, and red triggers so evidence, not hope or sunk cost, decides what happens next.

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• The Portfolio Pie

  Allocate 100 points across the outcomes that must coexist to expose what one salient goal is consuming.

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• The Goal Rehire Interview

  Fire the goal for 60 seconds and ask, with today's evidence, whether you would hire it back and at what scope.

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• Sacred Activity Check

  Ask whether measuring an intrinsically valuable activity would improve it or replace its point, and protect what shouldn't be scored.

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