#second order thinking

[definitlynotdwr]

The Path Not Planned: Lessons from a Viral Meme

    When designers try to overrule human incentives with a barricade, they don’t get obedience. They get a workaround. The meme Councillor Peter Fortune shared shows it in one frame: a paved bike path blocked by metal barriers, and a dirt trail worn smooth beside it where people simply go around. The joke lands because it’s familiar. The system “wins” on paper; the public wins in practice. The…

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[convivialdave]

Chesterton's Fence is not an admonishment of anyone who tries to make improvements; it is a call to be aware of second-order thinking before intervening. It reminds us that we don't always know better than those who made decisions before us, and we can't see all the nuances to a situation until we're intimate with it.

[thearbourist]

Chesterson's Fence - Why Second Order Thinking is Important

Chesterson’s Fence – Why Second Order Thinking is Important

Sometimes a concept is so good one must ruthlessly crib from another source – So here ya be, the notion of Chesterson’s Fence and how important it is to understand the reasons why something was done in the first place. “Second-order thinking will get you extraordinary results, and so will learning to recognize when other people are using second-order thinking. To understand exactly why this is…

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[putsomethought]

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln