Decision-Making With Limited Capacity

Interactive Tool

Information Minimum

It's possible to gather more than a decision needs — and with ME/CFS, the gathering is often the most expensive part. This finds the smallest amount of information that makes a good-enough choice possible, and gives you permission to stop there.

What this is for: Deciding when you have enough, so the search stops costing more than the answer is worth.

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The pending decision

You can leave this blank.

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What would actually change the answer?

Not everything you could know — only the facts that would move the choice.

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The smallest set of facts

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And the searching stops…

What you've put together

Your choices stay on this page — nothing is saved or sent.

The minimum, named — and the search given an end, so it stops being a demand with no finish line.

Nothing chosen yet — that's fine. Use only what helps today.

Perfect information doesn't exist for most ordinary choices, and waiting for it is usually a decision by default. 'Good enough, for now' is a legitimate place to stand.

Open the one-page view of this tool

A clean, keep-close version — read it here, or screenshot the page to have it on your phone.