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encyclopedia-generate2026-08-29 02:08
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  • refreshed decisions-as-bets ← group-decision-hygiene, kill-criteria, pre-mortem-analysis — Klein crystal-ball ritual vs Duke red team; Sonkin psychological safety; not if-then quit rules
ingest2026-08-28 13:30
2026-08-17-podcast-capital-allocators-best-of-pre-mortem-analysis-gary-klein

Multi-context source (vault/sources/) — also tagged for projects/stock-market.

Speaker-aware (AssemblyAI; named: Gary Klein, Paul Johnson, Paul Sonkin, Ted Seides - 1/2). Capital Allocators summer-series replay of the 2019 pre-mortem conversation. Stock-market treated this as craft/zero-novelty; psychology takes the decision-science ritual.

  • Created gary-klein (person, 4 quotes on pre-mortem-analysis / group-decision-hygiene).
  • Created paul-johnson (person, 2 quotes): “what could go wrong” kills the method.
  • Created paul-sonkin (person, 2 quotes): tip-of-the-tongue knowledge + psychological safety. Aliases for transcript garbles (Salkin / Sunken).
  • Created pre-mortem-analysis (concept): crystal ball / plan has failed / ~two minutes / leader first. Distinct from red teams and from kill-criteria.
  • Updated group-decision-hygiene: leader-sets-the-room + safety chips from Klein / Sonkin.
  • Updated kill-criteria: related-link only (same “imagine failure in advance” family; different ritual).
  • Ted Seides: named host / interviewer; no thesis-grade claim. Not updated. Unlabeled C/G skipped.
  • No mechanism. No project/stock-market tag on these pages (Duke pattern). Not routed to triangulate (not a newsroom method).
encyclopedia-generate2026-08-21 10:15
decisions-as-bets

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  • extended decisions-as-bets ← extended ← approach-avoidance-investment-framework, investment-mistake-taxonomy
encyclopedia-generate2026-08-21 05:15
decisions-as-bets

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  • created decisions-as-bets ← thinking-in-bets, resulting, group-decision-hygiene, bankroll-management, quitting-as-skill, kill-criteria, optionality, monkeys-and-pedestals, annie-duke
ingest2026-08-14 13:49
2026-08-03-podcast-capital-allocators-best-of-decision-making-annie-duke-2022

Multi-context source (vault/sources/) — also tagged for projects/stock-market.

Speaker-aware (AssemblyAI; named: Annie Duke, Ted Seides). Capital Allocators summer-series replay of the 2022 Quit conversation. Stock-market treated this as craft/zero-novelty; psychology takes grit/quit, kill criteria, optionality, and monkeys-and-pedestals as in-scope decision science.

  • Updated annie-duke (person, +12 quotes across quitting-as-skill, kill-criteria, optionality, monkeys-and-pedestals).
  • Updated ted-seides (person, +1 quote on monkeys-and-pedestals): his own fund-launch sequence as pedestal-before-monkey.
  • Created quitting-as-skill (concept): grit and quit are the same decision; correct quits feel too early; identity is hardest to quit (Sears/Everest). Duckworth endorsed with complementary-skill caveat; grit-scale replication flagged as open (SCOPE), not as a finding from this source. No standalone grit page — the thesis is the pairing.
  • Created kill-criteria (concept): precommit signals while not in it; Staw via Duke: "would I buy it today?" does not work; dual success metric (win or clean kill); Kahneman/Thaler quitting coach; Ron Conway two-month turnaround contract.
  • Created optionality (concept): two-way doors (Bezos/Branson) buy margin of error on the start; dating analogy; parallel exploration as a way to not force a premature quit.
  • Created monkeys-and-pedestals (concept): Astro Teller — bottleneck first, pedestals are false progress that snowball sunk cost (California HSR as disaster case).
  • Updated bankroll-management: related-link to kill-criteria.
  • No mechanism page — decision-science mental models, not ≥2-step forcing-function chains. Kahneman/Mauboussin/Duckworth/Teller/Thaler/Conway appear as intellectual context, not as person entities (they do not speak).
ingest2026-08-14 13:47
2026-08-03-podcast-capital-allocators-best-of-decision-making-annie-duke-2018

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Speaker-aware (AssemblyAI; named: Annie Duke, Ted Seides; skip unlabeled C). Capital Allocators summer-series replay of the 2018 Thinking in Bets conversation. Stock-market treated this as craft/zero-novelty; psychology takes the decision-science tools as in-scope.

  • Created annie-duke (person, 10 quotes across thinking-in-bets, resulting, group-decision-hygiene, bankroll-management): former poker player / cognitive-psych ABD who operationalizes Kahneman–Tetlock–Gilbert–Kahan for practitioners.
  • Created thinking-in-bets (concept): all decisions are bets on beliefs; "wanna bet?" forces Gilbert's skipped vetting step; Kahan: intelligence amplifies motivated reasoning.
  • Created resulting (concept): judge process not outcome; deconstruct the trade before the result; hide outcomes from reviewers. (Episode never uses the book-term "resulting"; same rule.)
  • Created group-decision-hygiene (concept): Tetlock's three (two disagree, one referees) + Mertonian CUDOS; don't infect the room with a prior; red teams invert the team-player problem.
  • Created bankroll-management (concept): Kelly/risk-of-ruin plus loss limits as the lesser irrationality versus tilt-driven luck-vs-skill self-diagnosis.
  • Updated approach-avoidance-investment-framework: related-link to thinking-in-bets.
  • Ted Seides: present as named host; no thesis-grade claims in this replay (intro/sponsor/reactions). Not updated. Speaker C skipped (unlabeled).
  • No mechanism page — these are decision-science concepts, not ≥2-step forcing-function chains.
ingest2026-05-23 11:30
2026-05-18-podcast-capital-allocators-making-mistakes-josh-steiner-ep-502

Speaker-aware (AssemblyAI; named: Ted Seides, Josh Steiner; A/C/E unresolved labels treated as source-attributed). Capital Allocators Ep. 502 — Ted Seides interviews Josh Steiner (SSW Partners co-founder, Yale IC member, former US Treasury Chief of Staff) on mistakes across investing levels. First substantive source ingested into this thread; produces the decision-making-psychology seed material.

  • Created josh-steiner (person, 4 quotes across approach-avoidance-investment-framework and investment-mistake-taxonomy): coined the approach-avoidance reframe as an operational substitution for risks-vs-attractions framing; surfaces the diary-subpoena Treasury mistake as a structurally interesting fifth-category (impressionistic-personal-records-under-evidentiary-frame) of decision-making error.
  • Created ted-seides (person, 1 quote): Capital Allocators host; brackets the episode framing.
  • Created approach-avoidance-investment-framework (concept): replaces standard risks-vs-attractions framing with "what do you have to believe to be true in order to be attracted to this?" — converts an affect-balance into a falsifiable hypothesis. Cross-link to behavioral-economics literature (Lewin field theory, Miller approach-avoidance conflict).
  • Created investment-mistake-taxonomy (concept): four-level taxonomy (deal, business-management, people-management, IC-service) with different feedback latencies and different cognitive failure modes. Implication: mistake-tracking systems that don't separate levels over-learn from deals and under-learn from the slower-feedback categories.
  • No causal-chain mechanism page created — Steiner's contributions are framings and taxonomies, not multi-step causal arguments with falsifiable empirical links. The approach-avoidance and taxonomy concepts are the right home for this material.
  • A/C/E speaker labels were heuristic-fallback (AssemblyAI returned them as unresolved); attributed claims are limited to Ted Seides and Josh Steiner. The unnamed labels appear in the source body but no quotes are attributed to entity pages from them.
note2026-05-13 09:19
thread created

Thread psychology scaffolded via /thread-create.

  • Scope: catch-all for psychology broadly (behavioral, cognitive, clinical, social, developmental, evolutionary), preferring evidence-based findings over pop framing. See SCOPE.md for details.