Decision-Making With Limited Capacity

Interactive Tool

Reversible / Harder-to-Reverse

The most useful second of thinking in a day: sorting a decision into its class before deciding anything. Soft decisions get seconds; hard decisions get time, information and usually another voice.

What this is for: Stopping hard-decision effort being spent on soft decisions.

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Reversible — decided cheaply, undone cheaply

2

Harder to reverse — worth real care

3

One thing I'm currently over-deliberating

You can leave this blank.

4

So it gets

What you've put together

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

The sort, applied — with the over-deliberated item honestly re-homed.

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

If it can be undone tomorrow, decide it in ten seconds. Changing your mind later is how decisions work — reversible decisions exist partly so that changing your mind is cheap.

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