One simple rule

I haven't been playing NL for that long, but I've come to realize that everything else in NL stems from this simple rule:

Make them chase you to beat you


If you make people chase you, and you don't chase, you'll cream 'em. Make them draw to flushes or straights with their whole stack. Make them pay to try to hit their ace after the flop. If they do, so be it. It's only gonna make them want to do it more. With this in mind everything at the NL table should seem obvious.

Mostly accurate. You should chase though - if you're getting the odds. If someone bets $10 into a $60 pot, I'm calling that with my nut flush draw all day long.

I think a better way to state that rule is:
Make them chase against the odds

And the matching rule is:
Chase if and only if you have correct pot odds

Basically that and good starting hands are the definition of ABC NL poker to me.