Move guide
A · Angle
Change the viewpoint, role, assumptions, or grounding.
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- REPERSPECTIVEDeliberately re-render the situation from other viewpoints (the other actor, an outsider, your future self) to surface information and incentives your default view hides.Expand branch →
- REROLEReassign what functional job an entity is actually doing (gatekeeper, sensor, bottleneck, translator) instead of what its title says.Expand branch →
- REONTOLOGIZEChange what kind of thing the problem is made of, turning an object into a process, a game, a signal, or an ecology, so new operations become possible.Expand branch →
- REGROUNDReconnect abstract words to observable examples, measurements, and actions, so people can actually tell what counts as an instance.Expand branch →
- RESCHEMABorrow the relational skeleton of a domain you understand and transfer only the structure that survives an explicit mismatch check.Expand branch →
- REORIENTChange the direction of your reasoning, working backward from the endpoint or imagining absence, to collapse a forest of options into a few necessities.Expand branch →