Intention and Decision

Distinguish hopes, forecasts, intentions, and choices.

1. 01

   Expectation: Belief, Hope, Norms, and Action

   Expectation can be a forecast, a hope, a social standard, or a belief about what action can achieve. This essay separates those meanings and connects them to intention, decision, and feedback.

   12 min read
2. 02

   Intention: How a Commitment Organizes Action

   Why intending is more than wanting, how intentions guide plans and action, and what they can—and cannot—tell us about responsibility.

   11 min read
3. 03

   Decision-Making: Judgment, Choice, and Commitment

   Decision-making is not a moment of selection or a guarantee of good outcomes. It turns uncertain possibilities, evidence, and values into a revisable commitment to act.

   12 min read

Examine decisions, strategic trade-offs, tactical execution, and games.

1. 01

   Decision-Making: Judgment, Choice, and Commitment

   Decision-making is not a moment of selection or a guarantee of good outcomes. It turns uncertain possibilities, evidence, and values into a revisable commitment to act.

   12 min read
2. 02

   Strategy: Purpose, Commitment, and Action Under Uncertainty

   An examination of strategy as intention, commitment, and realized action, with distinctions from policy, plans, tactics, and objectives, and tests of evidence and legitimacy.

   12 min read
3. 03

   Strategy and Tactics: Goals, Choices, and Execution

   A systematic distinction between strategy, tactics, goals, plans, operations, and execution, with a practical test for locating the boundary.

   13 min read
4. 04

   Games and Game Theory: Strategy, Equilibrium, and Institutions

   A game is a model of interdependent choice. This guide explains strategies, best responses, Nash equilibrium, cooperation, and the limits of formal rationality.

   13 min read

Separate what an agent intends from explanation and normative justification.

1. 01

   Intention: How a Commitment Organizes Action

   Why intending is more than wanting, how intentions guide plans and action, and what they can—and cannot—tell us about responsibility.

   11 min read
2. 02

   Rules and Principles: Reasons, Constraints, and Responsible Action

   Rules state actionable requirements; principles supply reasons for creating, interpreting, and revising them. This essay separates norms, policies, standards, procedures, controls, and AI constraints.

   13 min read