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Does this decision deserve a week of your attention, or five minutes?

Over-thinking a reversible choice and under-thinking a permanent one are the same mistake in different directions. Decision Check asks four questions about cost, consequence, missing information and how long you've been carrying it — then tells you which of those you're doing.

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Decision Check

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Four questions to work out how much process your decision actually deserves. It won't tell you what to choose — nothing here leaves your browser.

01How easy would this be to undo?

Not how it feels — what it would actually cost to reverse.

02How much changes if you get this wrong?

The size of the consequence, not the probability of it.

03Is there information you could still get?

Something you could actually obtain before you have to decide.

04How long have you been carrying this?

Since it first became a real question.

Answer all four to see what this decision needs from you.

What the four outcomes mean

Decide now

Cheap to reverse and limited in consequence. Acting produces better information than analysing, and the deliberation is the expensive part.

Get the information first

One obtainable fact would change your answer. Getting it beats another round of comparing options you already understand.

Run a reversible test

Real stakes, but you can still unwind it. The smallest honest version of the move tells you what no amount of thinking will.

Worth rehearsing properly

Hard to reverse and high consequence. Name the trade-off, separate facts from assumptions, and rehearse the paths before you commit.