Interactive Tool
Decision Filter
Three quick questions before any deliberation starts. If a decision fails this filter, it doesn't deserve the thinking you were about to give it.
What this is for: Stopping deliberation before it starts, wherever the decision doesn't warrant it.
The decision I'm about to turn over
You can leave this blank.
The three questions
What would actually change the answer?
If the honest answer is 'nothing', you already have enough.
You can leave this blank.
The verdict
What you've put together
Your choices stay on this page — nothing is saved or sent.
Whether the decision deserved deliberating at all — and for most of the day's decisions, the honest answer is no.
Nothing chosen yet — that's fine. Use only what helps today.
Most of the day's decisions are low-stakes, and treating them that way returns a surprising amount of capacity for the ones that genuinely need you.
A clean, keep-close version — read it here, or screenshot the page to have it on your phone.