When faced with a problem, most people instinctively try to add a solution—another feature, another policy, another intervention—rather than asking whether the problem would disappear if we simply removed something. This bias is especially strong for well-intentioned initiatives that we never re-examine once they've been created. The most powerful question isn't 'how do we improve this?' but 'would we be better off if this didn't exist at all?'
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