The hottest Heuristics Substack posts right now

Knowledge in society is dispersed, impacting the evolution of welfare states.
Policy emerges from a competitive process involving various actors.
Understanding multiple perspectives on information and process is vital in politics and policy.

A good solution that can be deployed quickly is often better than an extremely complex optimal solution.
Introducing mutations and heuristics can be beneficial in finding solutions, especially when working on heuristics instead of provably optimal solutions.
Combining ideas from multiple domains can lead to innovative and valuable solutions in computer science.

Innovators face resistance from standardizers when introducing new ideas, but persistence can lead to successful adoption.
Using leverage to solve problems can be risky, so it's crucial to model reality accurately to mitigate risks.
Information asymmetry between individuals, with different levels of knowledge and confidence, can impede optimal decision-making.

Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics are crucial for UX design.
Many individuals are reimagining and presenting these UX principles in creative ways.
Various resources such as memes, icons, and scorecards provide different perspectives on the 10 heuristics.

Many investors, both retail and institutional, often rely on simple rules of thumb to make investment decisions. While some of these rules can be useful, others are not effective at all.
Retail investors tend to use a variety of heuristics more frequently than chance, especially those influenced by social factors like peer behavior. This includes strategies like buying stocks from industries where they've previously profited.
Institutional investors, on the other hand, use heuristics less often, but still show a reliance on social influences. Interestingly, their use of heuristics generally leads to better outcomes compared to retail investors.

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Aligning APIs with the business strategy and ensuring usability are key for API success.
Domain-driven design helps in creating successful APIs by modeling processes and flows that align with the business domain.
Despite challenges, applying domain-driven design to APIs can be achieved by using heuristics to model operations and flows.

Practice epistemic humility by aiming to be less wrong rather than always right.
Understand opposing views as well as your own to strengthen your own arguments.
Be cautious of survivorship bias and remember that the information you see online is often a selection of the extraordinary, not the ordinary.

Outcomes are a result of a continuum, not a single decisive moment
Most decisions are reversible or can be influenced after being made
Focus on the decision-making process rather than rightness to drive continuous improvement