It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

– Sherlock Holmes

• gumption-taps
• productivity trap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpVBDamaGRQ
• https://gettingresults.com/cheat-sheet-productivity-pitfalls/
• http://super-memory.com/articles/20rules.htm
• coding-mistakes-and-gotchas
• Traps: Ambition & Inspiration from others
  • Avoid ambition (email)
  • https://crazypolymath.com/posts/avoid-inspiration/
• https://xyproblem.info/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
  • https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem
• https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
• Psychological traps https://www.facebook.com/spencer.greenberg/posts/10105562874401902
• resistance
• inner-critic
• rationalizing
• https://fs.blog/2013/04/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/
• https://gmb.io/diet-trap/
• https://medium.com/the-ascent/the-4-mini-epiphanies-that-will-stop-your-life-from-plateauing-6a8d355d8ed7
• trying
  • is a kind of internal resistance or internal-conflicts
• power
• Shiny object syndrome
• open loops: anything pulling at our attention that doesn't belong where it is, the way it is. – David Allen (GTD)
• philosophical sunk costs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
• Starting with history discourages the common and distracting tendency we all have to define a problem not by the system’s actual behavior, but by the lack of our favorite solution. (The problem is, we need to find more oil. The problem is, we need to ban abortion. The problem is, how can we attract more growth to this town?)
• composition-fallacy
• Dialectical Fallacy: Participants gesture to each other that they are interested in convincing each other, but their real aim is to signal, score points, and win with their tribe.
• Motivated reasoning
  • from https://mobile.twitter.com/tasshinfogleman/status/1402099848791404544
• the pitfall of note-taking starts when you forget why you began to note things and you start to feel that you watching.2021.06.no-need-for-should take notes
• The conjunction fallacy consists in assuming that specific conditions are more probable than more general ones.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-deal_fallacy
• The McNamara Fallacy is the flawed assumption that what can't be measured isn't important. It is the tendency to make a decision based on observable, quantitative metrics while ignoring all others.
• Narrow Focus Fallacy
• Vanity Metric Vanity > Quality
• moloch-trap
• Jingle-jangle fallacies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle-jangle_fallacies
• person.alan-watts's Backwards law
• Categorizing Has Consequences
• grows to goodness fallacy
• bypassing of complexity
• bad-faith
• hindrances in proj.inner-wayfinding
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strohmann-Argument
• https://open.substack.com/pub/lessfoolish/p/the-only-three-fallacies-you-need
  • dialectical fallacy (bad-faith)
  • jingle jangle fallacy (semantic-mapping)
  • fallacy fallacy projection
• The Advaita Trap 1: Absolute and Relative Confusion - The Cartoon - YouTube