Theory of Constraints Explained
The theory of constraints says every system has one bottleneck that caps output. Learn the five focusing steps and how to improve what actually limits you.
July 2026
The Overton Window: How Ideas Become Politically Possible
The Overton window explained: how the range of politically acceptable ideas forms, why politicians follow it, and how extremes, repetition, and crises move it.
The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Why We Throw Good Money After Bad
The sunk cost fallacy explained: Arkes and Blumer's theatre experiment, loss aversion, the Concorde fallacy, escalation of commitment, and how to beat it.
The Premortem: Imagining Failure Before It Happens
The premortem technique explained: how imagining a project has already failed, via prospective hindsight, surfaces risks that ordinary planning misses.
The Availability Heuristic: Why Vivid Beats Likely
The availability heuristic explained: why we judge probability by ease of recall, how vivid events distort risk, and how to defend against the bias.
The Anchoring Effect: How the First Number Shapes the Rest
The anchoring effect explained through Tversky and Kahneman's wheel experiment, selective accessibility, courtroom and pricing examples, and how to fight it.
Satisficing vs Maximizing Explained
Satisficing settles for good enough while maximizing chases the best. Learn the costs of each, when to use them, and how to decide how to decide.
Hick's Law: Why More Choices Slow You Down
Hick's Law explained: how decision time grows logarithmically with the number of choices, its information-theory roots, design uses, and where it breaks down.