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Every named framework pulled from the show — searchable, filterable, and structured down to the steps, examples, and mistakes.

9 frameworks

Innovation6 steps

Irritation Becomes Inspiration

A taught exercise that converts a photograph of something that annoyed you tonight into a product idea.

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Innovation5 steps

The Edison Principle of Design

James Dyson's named method of building products and companies through relentless experiment-and-feedback iteration instead of a master plan.

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Innovation6 steps

The Do Cool Shit Budget

Ring-fence 15% of your budget for work that is disqualified if it has a measurable immediate payoff.

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Macro Trend to Adjacent Job Mapping

Take a macro technology trend and systematically derive the support roles it will require, to find jobs and services that do not exist yet.

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Innovation5 steps

Bad-Good Ideas

Deliberately entertain ideas that sound stupid on first telling, because embarrassment is a poor proxy for market demand.

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The 50-Years-From-Now Test

Find the next big opportunity by naming what today's normal behaviour will look crude or barbaric to your grandchildren.

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The Relatable Remix: Take Something Vivid and Use It Somewhere Unexpected

Start from a thing people already feel strongly about, then transplant it into a context nobody has put it in.

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Innovation6 steps

The Video System Of Record Inversion

Find consumer incumbents whose moat is a hand-typed database, and invert it so raw video becomes the record and AI extracts the fields.

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Innovation7 steps

Wander Off the Beaten Path for Deal Flow

Go to ordinary places, ask what that building is, and stay long enough to watch the money move.

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