Human behavior
- Status quo bias & anchoring: We prefer the current state of things and incorrectly use that to compare alternatives, instead of comparing with what might be best.
- Always adding: Instinct to add rather than subtract to solve problems (often evident in software building, which I have experienced myself). See Inside the Box (chapter 1).
- Complete the incomplete: When something is left incomplete, such as an essay draft or a Netflix show, we prefer to finish it asap.
- Reframing: A single situation can be viewed from multiple perspective. When we are stuck with one we dislike, there's often another perspective that would make sense to us.
- Jealousy: People who are jealous of you won't think positively of you (Benjamin Franklin). Envy is a stupid sin (Charlie Munger). If you are all high and mighty, people want to pull you down; if you are an underdog working your way up, people want to support you (Lulu Meservey).
- Story over truth: People buy what they want to believe in rather than the truth. (See Inside the Box's periodic table story)
- Familiar method bias: The Einstellung effect (from the German word Einstellung, meaning "attitude", "frame of mind", or "setting"): Our brains default to a familiar mental shortcut, blinding us to obvious and even better alternative solutions.