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I founded Positive Constraint thanks to two things I learned from my dad. Following your passion is the key to

Abstraction is the act of filtering out unnecessary detail to surface what truly matters. It’s the core cognit

Have an interesting value puzzle? Looking for better answers? Let’s chat. Omer Yarkowich Positive Constraint T

A core constraint is the irreducible truth at the center of a problem domain. It’s what remains when you’ve ab

How are you better than other consultants? Well, I have no idea — I’ve never used their services. Neither have

A positive constraint is a constraint that, rather than blocking progress, shapes it. A limiting condition tha

Every engagement follows four phases. The depth and duration of each phase depends on the scope of the project

All three services draw from the same foundation: core constraints and abstraction. The difference is how far

Domain: Predictive Maintenance, IoT Geography: Israel Engagement type: Value proposition · B2B pitch Backgroun

Value creation comes in many forms. It is not limited to a certain industry, a certain geography, or a certain

Domain: eCommerce Enablement Geography: Singapore Engagement type: Investment pitch · Value strategy Backgroun

Domain: Emotional well-being platform for kids Geography: USA Engagement type: Pitch deck · Early-stage strate

Domain: Developer Tools — Inclusion Geography: Israel Engagement type: Value strategy · Investor pitch Backgro

Three red lights, two kids, and a dental bill — a red light is a constraint too: an unchanging eleme

Desired Reality is the goal in the language of Positive Constraint — your Now expressed, then refram

Every company is defined by three axes: one northstar KPI for the value it creates, and two that for

Innovation is finding new solutions to pre-existing problems given new constraints. The problem was

The world is too complex to predict and too fast to adapt to. The path to resilience lies not in wha

The world has become a polycrisis — too complex to predict and too fast to adapt to. Why out-changin

A memory limit left Jordan Mechner no room for a new boss — so he flipped the Prince into his own reflection. The constraint made the fight…

Superhuman made every interaction faster than 100ms — part of their DNA. Then AI turned out to be too slow to meet the standard, and the…

Three investments, one flywheel: intelligence, energy, proof of personhood — and the constraint that ties them together.

Every constraint has a silver lining — a method for systematically finding the opportunity inside any limitation.

Instead of dissolving a constraint, build radically around it — identity, strategy, and values assembled around the limitation itself.

The driving and restraining forces in tension around any status quo — Lewin's model for behavior change.

Motivation, ability, and a prompt have to converge at the same moment for a behavior to happen.

Dictatorships, cults, and other entities that don't have ideas — they have people.

Creativity is a blind man walking a dark corridor — trial and error toward a reality that's only visible in hindsight.

Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, Snowden's Cynefin, Morgan's A Beautiful Constraint — and where Positive Constraint departs from all three.

A fractal is a constraint — the one pattern that keeps replicating itself across every scale of an expression.

Where "plausible" quietly shades into "crazy" — and why that edge is where the interesting ideas live.

Value grows by following one axis all the way out — potato, fries, top-chef mashed potato.

Every company runs in three markets at once: products & services, capital, and labor.

New inventions carry old constraints as habits, not requirements — radio pretending to be TV, TV pretending to be live.

Bryan Johnson's zeroth-principles framework — and why constraint-first reasoning was the natural fit.

An investor spends under two and a half minutes on your deck. Sequoia's outline, plus the slides, structure, and thinking most decks miss…