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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Automate individual behaviors to reliability before…

Automate individual behaviors to reliability before optimizing for compound interactions between them.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Complex systems that work evolved from simple systems… (complex systems evolve from simple ones that worked) and Habits as Context-Response Associations (habit formation mechanism). Prescribes sequence: individual automation first, then compound optimization - preventing premature optimization failure mode.