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Chesterton-Miller Behavioral Fence: when you see people behaving in a seemingly suboptimal way, ask what you’re missing about what they’re actually optimizing for. Behavior is rarely suboptimal, but assumed cost functions are usually wrong.
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Corollary: when someone leaves out obvious qualifiers on a complex proposition, it’s generally safe to assume they’re solving for 240 characters and trusting readers to fill in the obvious supporting clauses
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100% agree - we don't intend to self-sabotage. Most of the time we aren't even aware Or the habit is so ingrained it is hard to unlearn