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Never decide what to do until you've thought of at least half a dozen alternatives beyond the ones you immediately thought of. [Sometimes the obvious thing is the best, but do it because you actually made that decision.]
What types of problems do you expect this heuristic to be successful with? If the problem is something like improvizing jazz, it will fail miserably.
If it's easy to judge that a given heuristic fails for a certain problem, then heuristic is not at fault: it can be easily seen to not apply there, and so won't introduce bias in that situation. The trouble lies where you think the heuristic applies but it doesn't.
Problems that require decisions. I doubt that any of the heuristics mentioned here would have any relevance to jazz improvisation.
More generally, I consider heuristics to be not substitutes for thought, but pointers to get thought moving in the most promising direction first.