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A comment on Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016). Parent comment

Re:Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperfor... by ilaksh on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:24PM (#19578809)
Just "planning" seems adequate to me.
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Re:Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperfor... by whatshisface on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:10PM (#19579033)
If the author called it planning then everyone would realize that they had already heard of it...

People might also realize that with every additional step of reasoning the chance that you got it right decays exponentially.

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Re:Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperfor... by mStreamTeam on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:17AM (#19579915)
That's why people make multiple plans and backup plans
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Re:Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperfor... by karmakaze on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:40AM (#19581273)
Plans for the most part execute the 'happy path'. That's wny everything's late and over-budget. Contingincy planning captures 2nd order and that's about as deep as it ever goes.
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