http://kaguc.com/tag/decisions/DecisionsHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usThu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://kaguc.com/media/logo.svghttp://kaguc.com/tag/decisions/http://kaguc.com/notes/sum-of-good-decisions/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://kaguc.com/notes/sum-of-good-decisions/<p>A pattern I keep seeing but haven&rsquo;t pinned: people make good decisions, each individually defensible, and the <em>sum</em> is bad. Worse than that — the sum is what you would have specifically tried to avoid if you&rsquo;d described it up front.</p> <p>Possible names: &ldquo;local optimization,&rdquo; &ldquo;constraint blindness.&rdquo; Neither fits. Local optimization has a global frame implied; this is a thing that happens <em>because nobody is keeping the global frame</em>.</p> <p>Coming back to this.</p>