This article looks like a good Part 1 of Many. I would normally expect this article to be followed by several more that go into detail about what good, rational planning actually looks like and how to do effective and useful research on topics like these.
Breaking things down into smaller parts and doing research sound like good ideas #1 and #2 of 20 or 30 needed to do really awesome planning.
This started as an effort to catalog my own planning processes, but I have tons more to learn.
I’ll definitely be thinking more about the points you’ve raised (what good rational planning looks like/good research), but I know that I, too, haven’t got the whole picture in my head yet.
I would like to add more to this idea of good planning as I learn more. Do you have any suggestions for further reading I might benefit from (and eventually write about)?
Immediate ideas that come to mind: lots of CFAR goal-oriented techniques like goal factoring, pre-hindsight, murphyjitsu, seeking strategic updates, and urge propagation. You can learn those at CFAR itself or Anna might be writing up something on them at some point during this year.
From other stuff I’ve been exposed to:
Generating 3rd option alternatives
Noticing and rejecting Fool’s Choices (presented with A but not B and B but not A, which you reject and then find a way to obtain both A and B)
being sure to write down actual models for decision trees and assign probabilities to them
finding people who failed in the past and avoid their failures
thinking about what someone cleverer or craftier than you would do
asking someone who is cleverer and craftier than you what they would do
etc.
Thanks! I hope to connect with CFAR later this year, so ideally I’d be able to learn more about good planning. The bit about avoiding past failures is something I haven’t appreciated until recently; I used to think that I had to learn everything the hard way (first-hand).
This article looks like a good Part 1 of Many. I would normally expect this article to be followed by several more that go into detail about what good, rational planning actually looks like and how to do effective and useful research on topics like these.
Breaking things down into smaller parts and doing research sound like good ideas #1 and #2 of 20 or 30 needed to do really awesome planning.
That’s really true.
This started as an effort to catalog my own planning processes, but I have tons more to learn.
I’ll definitely be thinking more about the points you’ve raised (what good rational planning looks like/good research), but I know that I, too, haven’t got the whole picture in my head yet.
I would like to add more to this idea of good planning as I learn more. Do you have any suggestions for further reading I might benefit from (and eventually write about)?
Immediate ideas that come to mind: lots of CFAR goal-oriented techniques like goal factoring, pre-hindsight, murphyjitsu, seeking strategic updates, and urge propagation. You can learn those at CFAR itself or Anna might be writing up something on them at some point during this year.
From other stuff I’ve been exposed to: Generating 3rd option alternatives Noticing and rejecting Fool’s Choices (presented with A but not B and B but not A, which you reject and then find a way to obtain both A and B) being sure to write down actual models for decision trees and assign probabilities to them finding people who failed in the past and avoid their failures thinking about what someone cleverer or craftier than you would do asking someone who is cleverer and craftier than you what they would do etc.
Thanks! I hope to connect with CFAR later this year, so ideally I’d be able to learn more about good planning. The bit about avoiding past failures is something I haven’t appreciated until recently; I used to think that I had to learn everything the hard way (first-hand).