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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-831

Schedule periodic reviews of installed defaults because…

Schedule periodic reviews of installed defaults because contexts change and unexamined defaults silently steer toward outdated goals.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle derives from People disproportionately stick with default options even… (defaults persist), Default options determine behavior more reliably… (defaults determine behavior), and Neural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning (neural reorganization over time). It's prescriptive about maintenance of decision architecture, not foundational itself.