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In software, we spend a lot of time working in the analytic "thinking space", a place where we are taking things apart and trying to figure out how they work. We call this the "synthetic" thinking space, a concept that is ages-old, but which gained popularity with mid-century business thinkers like Ackoff, Deming and Drucker. We use processes that are designed to help us put pieces together, and in ways that reveal the unique, the unexpected, and innovative, and the innovative.