Principlev1
Schedule renewal dates for all commitments to force periodic
Schedule renewal dates for all commitments to force periodic re-evaluation rather than relying on crisis to trigger assessment.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from the fact that unresolved cognitive commitments persist (Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik)), status quo bias prevents spontaneous evaluation (People disproportionately stick with default options even), and memory of why commitments were made decays (Exponential Information Decay). Prescribes temporal structure to counteract these forces.