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> There are decisions that deserve days of debate and analysis, but the vast majority aren’t worth more than 10 minutes. Quick! I need a vast majority detector
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
> There are decisions that deserve days of debate and analysis, but the vast majority aren’t worth more than 10 minutes.
Quick! I need a vast majority detector.
Setting a deadline for deciding something sounds good to me, but the above is some kind of puzzle.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoUnfortunately, it's an art, not a science. In the question "which ones?", don't miss the point of the article - that we spend far too much time making most decisions.
- jfoutz 11y agoHow much will it hurt if you do nothing? is a decent heuristic. Any time the answer is "a lot" there's a big complicated change that needs to happen. If there was an obvious or easy answer, it wouldn't have gotten to the "a lot" level.