The rationalist heuristic to figure out root causes for problems is to ask “why?” 5 times. Do not use when feeling stupid.
The postrationalist heuristic to figure out root motivations for behaviors is to ask “why bother?” 5 times. Do not use when feeling depressed.
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Heidegger worked for Toyota? 🤔
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In this case I might also substitute "pragmatist" for post-rationalist, in the "pragmatist theory of meaning" sense not the colloquial meaning, as in we care about how events bear upon consequent situations of agents, not some view-from-nowhere explanation by axiomatic entailment
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The n00b Angel investor version of this is asking, how will this scale, 10x without feeling stupid.
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