Situation-first library

What decision are you making?

You do not need to know the name of a cognitive bias. Start from the work or life situation, then use a few evidence-aware questions to test the decision.

SituationHiring and interviews

Review candidate judgments before confidence, first impressions or outcome stories become stronger than the evidence.

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SituationProject estimation

Estimate time and effort with an outside view instead of relying only on the current plan.

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SituationProduction incident review

Separate what was knowable during an incident from what became obvious only after the outcome.

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SituationProduct prioritization

Review roadmap choices without letting the loudest request, recent event or prior investment define value.

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SituationVendor or tool selection

Compare tools using precommitted criteria rather than demos, authority or the first price shown.

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SituationForecasting under uncertainty

Make a forecast that can later be checked, updated and learned from.

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SituationPerformance review

Judge performance without letting one recent result or known outcome rewrite the quality of the underlying work.

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SituationNegotiation

Protect a negotiation from the first number and from pressure to justify a position already taken.

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SituationAI-assisted research

Use AI to expand research without treating fluent text, repeated output or model confidence as verification.

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SituationChecking a repeated claim

Test whether repetition represents independent evidence or only makes a claim feel familiar.

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SituationCareer change

Compare staying, moving or reskilling without letting salary anchors, sunk time or today's mood decide the future.

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SituationKPI and benchmark review

Check whether a score is still a useful proxy for the real goal and whether the comparison is being interpreted consistently.

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Boundary

A lens is a question, not a diagnosis.

These pages show reasoning risks that may be worth checking. They do not prove that a person or team has a named bias.