/tags/decision-making/ Recent content in Decision-Making on Werk Space Hugo en Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:39:17 +0000 /blog/2026/05/03/heuristics/ Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/2026/05/03/heuristics/ <div class="pageinfo pageinfo-primary"> <p>THIS IS A DRAFT! A running collection of heuristics I regularly use but have not yet fully thought upon or expanded. I may do so in the future.</p> </div> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>A collection of lenses I use to make sense of why people, and societies, behave the way they do — why we exploit resources to the point of depletion, why status drives so much behavior, why fear and regret dominate so many lives, why our small-world wiring struggles in a large world. These are heuristics in the original sense: shortcuts to explanation, not guidance for self-improvement. Each is a seed; some may grow into longer pieces later.</p>