Mind & EverydayMental model
Meet a stranger in New York, no messages allowed. Where?
Thomas Schelling posed this in 1960 in The Strategy of Conflict. Most of his students said noon at Grand Central Terminal. No location is objectively better – it is simply the most salient. Such focal points solve coordination without communication, purely through shared expectations.
Useful: When you can't communicate, pick the option everyone assumes everyone will assume.
Source: en.wikipedia.org