Problem Solving

When Stuck diagnoses why you're stuck and routes you to the matching technique. It maps six stuck-types—complexity, innovation gaps, recurring patterns, forced assumptions, scale uncertainty, and code bugs—to their corresponding skills, plus combinations when one approach isn't enough.

When Stuck routes you to the right problem-solving skill based on your specific stuck-symptom. Diagnose whether you're facing complexity spirals, innovation gaps, recurring patterns, flawed assumptions, scale uncertainty, or bugs—then apply the matching technique.

Systematic Debugging enforces a disciplined four-phase process: investigate root cause, analyze patterns, form and test hypotheses, then implement fixes. It stops you from guessing or patching symptoms, ensuring you understand the actual problem before making changes.

This skill provides five distinct techniques for tackling different problem types—from complexity spirals to innovation blocks. Each method targets a specific stuck-ness pattern, with a dispatch system to match your symptom to the right approach. Combine techniques as needed for harder problems.

This skill teaches you to deliberately combine disparate domains—treating one problem space like another—to uncover novel solutions that conventional approaches miss. By forcing concepts from different fields to collide, you generate emergent properties that reveal breakthrough insights. The process guides you through picking unrelated domains, exploring what emerges from the collision, testing where the metaphor holds, and extracting actionable patterns.

Problem Solving provides six targeted techniques for different types of stuck-ness: simplification cascades to unify special cases, collision-zone thinking for breakthrough ideas, meta-pattern recognition across domains, inversion exercises to question assumptions, the scale game to test extremes, and a dispatch guide to match your symptom to the right approach. Combine techniques as needed for complex problems.