# Crocker's rules Operating to optimize information not feelings [Lee Daniel Crocker - Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker#:~:text=Crocker's%20Rules%20means%20that%20you,of%20fact%2C%20they%20would%20be.) <!-- #mental-model --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Crocker's+rules) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Crocker's+rules) <!-- {BearID:CE7B3B58-67C6-4849-8C6C-D12F5E54D221-1435-00037B0ADC37562D} -->