Lessons tagged “heuristics”

7 published lessons with this tag.

Schema selection heuristics

You need rules for choosing which schema to apply in a given situation.

A simple agent that fires consistently beats a complex agent that fires intermittently.

Agents for recurring decision types like buy-versus-build or accept-versus-decline.

For most decisions good enough is better than perfect because the search cost exceeds the improvement.

A rule is a pre-committed decision that prevents you from having to re-decide the same thing every time.

When unsure what to do ask what would a person with my declared identity do.

Clear values eliminate entire categories of decisions — you simply choose what aligns.