Thinkie: Survivable?
Luca Delanna’s book Ergodicity spawned (or brought into focus) a bunch of Thinkies for me. This is the root.
Pattern: You are stuck making a decision.
Transformation: Ask if the negative outcome is survivable. Either:
The negative outcome is survivable, in which case do the quickest, cheapest thing that generates value (information, time, or other resource…