How to think about problems
TRIZ, constraints, and films about people who solved things
Where good solutions come from, why the obvious one often fails, and how much of a decision is really emotion. Essays on structured thinking, plus the films that show it happening.
- 01 Article The Secret Weapon Used by the Biggest Companies: What TRIZ Is and How It Helps Find Strong Solutions How TRIZ helps Samsung, Intel, and other companies identify contradictions, improve products, and solve complex problems systematically.
- 02 Article Why Good Solutions Do Not Always Work Sometimes a solution is perfectly logical, yet it fails because it never addresses the real problem. A look at why we solve the wrong task and how to see it more clearly.
- 03 Article Emotional Weight of Decisions: What Fibonacci Has to Do With It and How to Use It in Life How past experience and current state shape decisions, and how to use this understanding in practice.
- 04 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Inventors and engineers Films about people who were solving a specific problem and, along the way, invented something that had not existed before.
- 05 Article Movies About Creative Thinking: Limits that help Films where the hero is locked inside hard limits: time, space, and whatever objects happen to be at hand.
- 06 Article The Age of Trust Why knowledge is no longer the main advantage in the AI era.
- 07 Book Thirst for Reality Stop trying to fix yourself and learn to solve problems instead. Or how to make your mistakes work for you.
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