What is Minto Pyramid Principle?

Minto Pyramid Principle is a concept in personal epistemology: Agents for how to structure emails presentations and difficult conversations.

Example: You receive a Slack message asking you to explain why the project timeline slipped. Without a communication agent, you either fire off a defensive paragraph or spend twenty minutes agonizing over phrasing. With a BLUF agent, the response writes itself in under two minutes: state the new date, state the cause, state the mitigation, ask for what you need. The structure eliminates the deliberation. You had the information already — what you lacked was the form. The agent supplies the form so your cognition can focus entirely on content.

This concept is part of Phase 21 (Agent Fundamentals) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for agent fundamentals.