Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
A very small subset of your decisions are one-way doors. Non-reversible portals into bad realities. These ones should take you more time. They require more information.
Daniel Kazandjian • Minimum Viable Productivity
Most day-to-day decisions can and should be made quickly, especially if you’re iterating on something that already exists. You should still take your time and consider your options and make sure you’re thinking through next steps, but not every idea has to chase you around for a month.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The simple framework Jeff Bezos used to make faster decisions at Amazon:
“Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t
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