Intertemporal Choice & Commitment¶
Primes about decisions that bind the present to the future under irreversibility: discounting and time value, optionality and reversibility horizons, lock-in, sunk cost, and technical debt, plus the foresight tools (scenario planning, three horizons) used to anticipate what is coming.
29 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.
- Amara's Law — — · mid
- Antifragility — structural · crowded
- Collingridge Dilemma — — · mid
- Critical Juncture — mixed-structural · crowded
- Culminating Point — — · crowded
- Discounting (Present Value) — mixed-framed · crowded
- Disruptive Innovation — — · distinctive
- Escalation of Commitment — mixed-framed · mid
- Fading — mixed-structural · crowded
- Foresight — — · crowded
- Increasing Returns — — · mid
- Learning Curve Effects — structural · crowded
- Liquidity — mixed-framed · mid
- Lock-In — — · crowded
- Managed Retreat — — · mid
- Optionality — mixed-framed · crowded
- Path Dependence — mixed-structural · crowded
- Regret — mixed-structural · mid
- Reversibility and Irreversibility — structural · crowded
- Reversibility Horizon — mixed-framed · crowded
- Scenario Planning — mixed-framed · crowded
- Self Control — mixed-structural · crowded
- Speculative Bubble — structural · distinctive
- Stressor Induced Adaptation — structural · crowded
- Sunk Cost and Irreversible Commitment — mixed-framed · crowded
- Technical Debt — — · mid
- Temporal Inconsistency and Preference Reversals — mixed-framed · crowded
- Three Horizons Analysis — mixed-framed · crowded
- Time Value of Money — mixed-framed · distinctive