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The Slime Mold Integration Algorithm

Use when integrating failures, dead ends, partial paths, or apparent waste into productive substrate for forward progress.

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The steps

  1. Identify the failed path. What was attempted? What did not work?
  2. Extract the information. What did the failure reveal? What constraints did it map? What approaches did it eliminate from future consideration?
  3. Identify what the failed path’s information enables in the surviving network. The slime mold retracts protoplasm from inefficient tubes back into the network.
  4. Integrate the information into current configuration. Do not delete the failure record — preserve it as load-bearing structure that informs every future decision.
  5. Restart the exploration with the new substrate loaded. Failed paths ten steps deep collapse to step one and restart with the prior path’s information available.
  6. Trust the integration. Every failure that contributed information is part of what the present configuration is made of. Nothing is lost.
  7. Apply at every level. Personal failures integrate into individual capability. Organizational failures integrate into institutional knowledge. Civilizational failures integrate into cultural inheritance. The mechanism is identical.

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From the GFunnel Methodology v5.1 by Cameron Garlick, licensed CC BY 4.0. Steps are reproduced word for word.