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Perfect Is The Enemy of Good

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The model perfect is the enemy of good drives home this point—if you wait for the perfect decision, or perfect anything, really, you may be waiting a long time indeed. And by not making a choice, you are actually making a choice: you are choosing the status quo, which could be considerably worse than one of the other choices you could already have made.

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Anything That Can Go Wrong, Will

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Too Much Of A Good Thing

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Inverse Thinking
Unforced Error
Antifragile
Arguing From First Principles
De-risking
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Premature Optimization
Ockham's Razor
Conjunction Fallacy
Overfitting
Frame of Reference
Framing
Nudging
Anchoring
Availability Bias
Filter bubble
Echo Chambers
Third story
Most Respectful Interpretation
Hanlon's Razor
Fundamental Attribution Error
Self-Serving Bias
Veil of Ignorance
Birth Lottery
Just World Hypothesis
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Learned Helplessness
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Semmelweis Reflex
Confirmation Bias
Backfire Effect
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Cognitive Dissonance
Thinking Gray
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Short-termism
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Perfect Is The Enemy of Good
Reversible Decisions
Hick's Law
Paradox of Choice
Decision Fatigue
Murphy's Law