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Most problems make you a commodity. The right one makes you a monopoly.
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The Reframe is the Startup
Jul 31, 2025
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Languaging: The Software of Belief
Oct 15, 2025
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Mike Maples
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Pattern Breaking Startup Ideas
Feb 2, 2024
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Mike Maples
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The Heresy of Breakthrough Startups
Sep 30, 2025
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Mike Maples
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Breakthroughs Begin with Better Explanations
Dec 4, 2025
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Mike Maples
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Languaging: The Software of Belief
Pattern-breaking companies install radically different beliefs through language.
Oct 15, 2025
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Mike Maples
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The Heresy of Breakthrough Startups
Breakthrough startups happen when founders refuse a hidden assumption, replace it with a better explanation, and make it impossible for early believers…
Sep 30, 2025
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Mike Maples
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Every Reframe Starts with a Refusal
The Trap You Don’t See
Aug 21, 2025
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Mike Maples
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The Reframe is the Startup
Startups are supposed to be about building. But the ones that break through don't just build. They shift how we see.
Jul 31, 2025
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Mike Maples
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Fish Stories
A totally inadequate homage to Mike Maples, Sr.
Jan 30, 2025
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Mike Maples
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A Misfit's Journey to Greatness
Why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a Pattern Breaker
Dec 25, 2024
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Mike Maples
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