How I think about decisions

Most decisions don’t deserve the deliberation they get. The skill isn’t making better decisions — it’s correctly sorting decisions into “fast” and “slow” before you start.

Two doors

If a decision is a two-way door — easy to reverse, cheap to undo — make it fast and move on. Most hiring calls, feature bets, and pricing experiments are two-way doors dressed up as one-way doors by our own anxiety.

One-way doors — the ones that are expensive or impossible to reverse — deserve real deliberation: a cap table change, a co-founder decision, a public commitment.

The questions I actually ask

• What does it cost to reverse this in 30 days?
• Am I avoiding this decision because it’s hard, or because it’s genuinely not urgent?
• Whose decision is this actually, and have I made it theirs?

The trap

The trap isn’t indecision. It’s treating every decision like a one-way door because that feels responsible. It isn’t — it’s just slow, and slow compounds against you faster than a wrong two-way-door call ever will.