A Heuristic for When to Reason vs When to Act

I love this on a number of levels. First, a great question, and more than half the battle imo is asking the right kind of question. David Cain has touched on a version of this also [1]. And I very much am a person that can get lost in my own organizational overhead and know I'm being very out of balance between thinking and doing, and in search of an overarching framework or limiting principle.

And I don't know that this solves everything, but it does bite off a piece of it, in a way that I think I agree with. The further out, the more circumstances can change, and the closer up, the more practical reasoning matters (they seem to use reasoning to mean something close to practical logistics). There's probably more to it, of course, but it's a good question and good start to an answer.

1. https://www.raptitude.com/2014/02/keep-your-doing-and-your-d...