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Contradictions

• When two or more things succeed or fail simultaneously, though usually they would track in opposite directions; or when things track in the same direction, though typically the reverse would be true.

Inflections

• When something happens to catalyze a great acceleration in emerging researach.
  • fundraising; acquisition of a new company, product, or team; the passage or defeat of legislation; an unanticipated natural disaster; a market crash; an act of terrorism.

Practices

• When a new technology threatens the established orthodoxy.

Hacks

• When consumers or companies are creating off-label uses for something such that it becomes more useful; or when an experience related to tech or digital media is so frustrating that one builds something smarter, more intuitive and easier to use.

Extremes

• When people are truly pushing boundaries in an attempt to break new ground.

Rarities

• When something—a social movement, or object, a community, a business practice, or a policy— is so unusual and unique that it seems like a meaningless outlier, but it actually solves a fundamental human need or transforms some element of society.
  • something out of place but succeeding, even if it is not the cause of disruption or transformation itself.