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Decision-Making With Limited Capacity

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Decision Triage Sheet

Sorting a decision into its class (now, later, not at all, not me; stakes; reversibility) so almost all the deliberating disappears.

A keep-close version. Read it here, or screenshot this page to have it on your phone — print and PDF copies will appear once final files are attached.

One decision, sorted in under a minute. Not to make it — to find out what kind of thing it is, so it can go where it belongs instead of circling all week.

The decision, in one line

What's circling

e.g. Whether to reply to the invitation, and what to say

Where does it go?

Decide now — it's smallDecide later — with a dateNot at all — some questions deserve to be droppedNot me — someone else could carry this one

The stakes

Low — food, plans, small thingsHigh — money, health, commitments, other people

Reversible?

Reversible — it can be undone tomorrow for less than deliberating costs todayHarder to reverse — it deserves time, information, and often another voice

If 'later': the parked spot

A decision parked with a date costs nothing. A decision left floating costs every day it floats.

Decide it by

e.g. Thursday morning, when I'm usually clearest

If 'not me': who, and what they need

Who could carry it

e.g. Sam — 'you choose, I trust you'

Sorting wrongly in the direction of over-deliberation is the common failure: spending hard-decision effort on soft decisions. Whatever you wrote here, it now has somewhere to be.

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