How to Decide
by Annie Duke
A workbook on decision-making: separating decision quality from outcome quality, resulting, hindsight bias, the knowledge tracker, pre-mortems and when to decide fast. Exercises on every page make it practical rather than theoretical.
Read it if…
you want to improve decisions with pen-and-paper tools rather than theory.
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Skip it if…
you want the ideas without exercises; see Thinking in Bets.
Try instead: Living with the Monks →
Three things you will actually use
- Good decisions can have bad outcomes.
- Write down what you knew when you decided.
- Spend decision time in proportion to stakes and reversibility.
Do this first
Run a pre-mortem on your next significant decision before committing.
Our verdict
Practical decision workbook.
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