Razors to live by..

 

• Occam’s Razor – The simplest answer is often the right answer
• Hanlon’s Razor – Don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity
• Sagan’s Razor – Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
• Parkinson’s Law– Work expands to fill the available time for its completion
• Hofstadter’s Law – Contradicting Parkinson’s razor, things usually take longer than we think
• Anchoring Bias – The first thing we see or learn influences what we think next
• Pareto Principal – 80% of results come from 20% of effort
• Eisenhower’s Matrix – Urgent things are not important, and important things are never urgent
• Gall’s Law – Complex systems that work invariably evolve from a simple system that worked
• Dunning-Kruger Effect – Unskilled people overestimate their ability, experts underestimate
• The Halo Effect – When you like 1 thing about someone, you think everything about them is good
• Hawthorne Effect – When people know they’re being watched, they work harder
• Sayre’s Law – People often argue the most about things that matter the least
• Chesterton’s Fence – Don’t change something until you understand why it’s there
• Sunk Cost Fallacy – Keep doing something because you’ve already spent time or money on it
• The Streisand Effect – When you try to hide something, it often gets more attention

A bunch of "truths" that are pretty consistently correct in our everyday Human interactions and endeavours..