DOCA.6:6 - Bias-Annotation

Immediate-performance bias can discard a useful stepping stone; novelty bias can retain an attractive but unsupported one. Sunk-cost reasoning can keep a branch alive after its enabling condition disappears. A tidy stage sequence can conceal conditional starting states.

Ask what later use justifies retention now, what continuing burden it creates, and what answer would end it. Keep “worth remembering,” “worth maintaining,” and “chosen to perform” distinct. These distinctions make retention inspectable without guaranteeing future value.