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Your attention goes where your intention already pointed it. Decide what to focus on before you start, and your perceptual system reorganizes around that decision — filtering, prioritizing, and surfacing what matters while suppressing what does not.
When an agent handles a recurring decision you preserve energy for novel decisions.
Agents for recurring decision types like buy-versus-build or accept-versus-decline.
A rule is a pre-committed decision that prevents you from having to re-decide the same thing every time.
The most important boundaries are the ones you set with yourself — limits on your own behavior, consumption, and tendencies that would otherwise undermine your goals and values.
Making decisions in advance removes them from the moment of action.
Some drives should have veto power in specific situations — define these in advance.
Deciding in advance eliminates the need for willpower at the moment of action.