Second Order Thinking

Use when a decision will trigger downstream reactions — pricing changes, policy design, product trade-offs, organizational moves, platform rule changes, investment choices. Triggers on Chinese phrases 涨价 / 改规则 / 调架构 / 投资 / 平台政策 / 算法调整 / 长期 vs 短期, and English signals "let's just X", "this is the obvious move", "we should change Y". Especially when intuition says answer is "obvious" (often signals 1st-order best = 2nd-order worst), or when user describes a market/users/employees who WILL react to the decision. Howard Marks's investing edge. Do NOT use for decisions with no feedback loop (personal consumption), time-critical incidents (use ooda-loop), or already-paralyzed analysis (cap recursion at 3-4 orders).

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