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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Kahneman's synthesis of decades of behavioral research names the failures that make pre-commitment gates necessary: planning fallacy, optimism bias, and the suppression of dissent in group planning. The Quarterly Operating System leans on his account of the pre-mortem — writing down every reason a project might fail before execution — as the psychological foundation for why written commitment tests work where conversational ones don't.