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How to Take Good Decisions?

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Re: How to Take Good Decisions?

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I am practicing a different approach lately. Rather than spending energy on taking good decision I'd pick a decent one out of the options I have and work on it to make it good in the timeframe available for execution.

Re: How to Take Good Decisions?

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can train chess moves and design patterns. There's definitely best practice books like The 33 Strategies of War, Greene. The startup world has lots of these as well - how to discover product market fit, how to run teams, when to hire COOs. Not all advice fits all situations, but having various palettes is handy.

do you have any resources in that direction? Like we have around what atleast 5000 years of human history and history for larger part repeats itself.. there has to be some way to tap into this to optimize decision making.

I remember reading this a few years back and thinking it was insightful: https://commoncog.com/a-framework-for-putting-mental-models-.... Do give it a try. It has overlaps with Farnam Street's content.
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