second-order-thinking

Use when a decision will trigger downstream reactions — pricing changes, policy design, product trade-offs, organizational moves, platform rule changes, investment choices. Triggers on Chinese phrases 涨价 / 改规则 / 调架构 / 投资 / 平台政策 / 算法调整 / 长期 vs 短期, and English signals "let's just X", "this is the obvious move", "we should change Y". Especially when intuition says answer is "obvious" (often signals 1st-order best =…