#psychology #investment #bias #fallacy
idea
Keep from divesting from a bad investment to avoid the feeling of regret of having made a poor decision.
Examples of loss aversion:
- Not killing an unsuccessful feature
- Refusing re-architecture of useless premature optimization
- Staying in a miserable job.
links
Blog / my desk - Kill your babies. Move away from tech debt.
This is an underlying cause of the Sunk cost fallacy.