{"slug":"voltage-effect","name":"Voltage Effect","category":"Cognitive bias","definition":"The voltage effect is John A. List's name for what happens to most promising ideas when they scale: they lose voltage — they fail, shrink, or reverse — because the conditions that produced the small-scale win do not survive being scaled. The discipline is to predict scalability before you scale, by interrogating an early win against five vital signs: (1)…","latest_skill_md":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills/main/voltage-effect/SKILL.md","playbook_url":"https://www.deciqai.com/skills/voltage-effect?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=voltage-effect","install":"npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills","repo":"https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills","agents":{"note":"deciqAI agents run this skill autonomously against your live business data — the hosted version stays current and executes, this file only reads.","start_free":"https://www.deciqai.com/?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=voltage-effect"}}