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Invert, Always Invert: Why a Problem Reversed is a Problem Solved. The theory of inventive problem solving became known as TRIZ in the 1970s as problem-solving tools. Charlie Munger and Genrich Altshuller were both sent to the Gulag Archipelago in the Cold War for their ideas of innovation. Munger was a Soviet Navy patent officer who sent Stalin a letter in 1948 criticizing the lack of innovation within the Soviet system. Mungers: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there."