I think there is a critical piece which could be added about Satisficing over strategies. “Satisficing” would be giving a bit of thought to each priority structure and the tasks, finding the thing that is highest value based on the first pass, and just doing that without spending lots of time on meta-level concerns.
The above post also ignores heuristic approaches to VoI (Value of Information). I wrote about that here, but the short answer is that you should spend 5 seconds thinking about whether there is something that would inform your decision, and if there is and it’s very easy to get, you should get it, and if it’s hard to get but very valuable then you should read the post.
I agree that meta level concerns shouldn’t come in for the vast majority of decisions. I think I would claim that not spending some concentrated time on meta concerns (eg learning KonMarie) leaves one in ongoing confusion about akrasia.
I think there is a critical piece which could be added about Satisficing over strategies. “Satisficing” would be giving a bit of thought to each priority structure and the tasks, finding the thing that is highest value based on the first pass, and just doing that without spending lots of time on meta-level concerns.
The above post also ignores heuristic approaches to VoI (Value of Information). I wrote about that here, but the short answer is that you should spend 5 seconds thinking about whether there is something that would inform your decision, and if there is and it’s very easy to get, you should get it, and if it’s hard to get but very valuable then you should read the post.
I agree that meta level concerns shouldn’t come in for the vast majority of decisions. I think I would claim that not spending some concentrated time on meta concerns (eg learning KonMarie) leaves one in ongoing confusion about akrasia.
Agreed.