A natural schelling point: a thing everyone can agree is reasonable and that they can live with.
- A natural schelling point: a thing everyone can agree is reasonable and that they can live with.
- Seems like a low bar but is actually a very high one.
- It's also magnetic; an idea that everyone finds reasonable will emerge quickly as the default choice.
- Sometimes it takes a bit of sleuthing for hidden constraints to identify such an idea, but if you do it's the best way to get people successfully coordinated and committed.