Use when writing recommendation letters, reference letters, or award nominations for students, postdocs, or...
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Use when documenting significant technical or architectural decisions that need context, rationale, and consequences...
Use when teams need shared direction and decision-making alignment. Invoke when starting new teams, scaling...
Use when making predictions or judgments under uncertainty and need to explicitly update beliefs with new evidence....
Use when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when...
Use when writing or reviewing career documents including research statements, teaching statements, diversity...
Use when investigating why something happened and need to distinguish correlation from causation, identify root...
Use when making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty that require stakeholder buy-in. Invoke when evaluating...
Use when facing decisions with multiple legitimate perspectives and inherent tensions. Invoke when stakeholders have...
Use when planning high-stakes initiatives (migrations, launches, strategic changes) that require clear...
Use when cooking or planning meals, troubleshooting recipes, learning culinary techniques (knife skills, sauces,...
Use when starting technical work requiring structured approach - writing tests before code (TDD), planning data...
Use when designing visual interfaces, data visualizations, educational content, or presentations and need to ensure...
Use when transforming analysis/data into persuasive narratives—presenting to executives, explaining technical...
Use when brainstorming feels stuck or generates obvious ideas, need to break creative patterns, working with limited...
Use when creating custom, interactive data visualizations with D3.js—building bar/line/scatter charts from scratch,...
Use when designing database schemas, need to model domain entities and relationships clearly, building knowledge...
Use when comparing multiple named alternatives across several criteria, need transparent trade-off analysis, making...
Use when dealing with complex systems that need simplification, identifying bottlenecks or critical failure points,...
Use when testing plans or decisions for blind spots, need adversarial review before launch, validating strategy...
Use when optimizing multi-factor systems with limited experimental budget, screening many variables to find the...
Use when debates are trapped in false dichotomies, polarized positions need charitable interpretation, tradeoffs are...
Use when validating product assumptions before building, discovering unmet user needs, understanding customer...
Use when formulating clinical research questions (PICOT framework), evaluating health evidence quality (study design...