>If good news happens, you don't need to do anything. If bad things happen, you need to do something fast. That is actually a terrible heuristic. The need to “

>If good news happens, you don't need to do anything. If bad things happen, you need to do something fast. That is actually a terrible heuristic. The need to “do something fast” leads to tremendous amounts of wasted time and resources and often a codified public policy that is unproductive or counterproductive. The bias to action over inaction exists, among other reasons, because it plays out conceit that we control our own fate.