On: Speed as a Habit

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

> 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.

[jfoutz → 0xdeadbeefbabe]

How 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.

[AnimalMuppet → 0xdeadbeefbabe]

Unfortunately, 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.