Commitment, Path-Dependence & Optionality

Primes about how decisions commit and constrain: path dependence and lock-in, optionality and reversibility, sunk costs and escalation of commitment, moral hazard, time preference and discounting, creative destruction, optimism bias, the tragedy of the commons.

14 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Creative Destruction — mixed-framed · distinctive
• Decision — mixed-structural · crowded
• Escalation of Commitment — mixed-framed · distinctive
• Increasing Returns — — · crowded
• Lock-In — — · crowded
• Moral Hazard — framed · distinctive
• Optimism Bias — mixed-framed · crowded
• Optionality — mixed-framed · crowded
• Path Dependence — mixed-structural · crowded
• Reversibility and Irreversibility — structural · crowded
• Reversibility Horizon — mixed-framed · crowded
• Sunk Cost and Irreversible Commitment — mixed-framed · crowded
• Time Preference (Discounting Future) — mixed-structural · crowded
• Tragedy of the Commons — mixed-framed · distinctive