All core values
Growth
Ingenuity
Finding a clever path when the obvious one is blocked or too expensive.
Behaviors
- Reframes the constraint as the puzzle
- Builds a scrappy version to learn
- Borrows solutions from unrelated fields
Anti-patterns
- Cleverness that creates fragile systems
- Reinventing what already works
- Waiting for perfect resources
Reinforce it with
- Prototype demos
- Constraint-based design challenges
- Celebrating elegant simplifications
Ingenuity keeps limited resources from becoming an excuse.