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Decision Systems

Defaults, routines, less friction.

What it covers

How many routine choices you remake from scratch each day, and whether you have defaults and protocols that spend that energy somewhere better.

When it's flat

  • Decision fatigue by late afternoon.
  • Small choices costing more than they should.
  • No default for the things that repeat.

None of this is a failing. It's a description of a system nobody has had time to design yet.

One small system

Pick one recurring decision — a weekday breakfast, a standing meeting default — and set it once so you stop deciding it.

Take the Operations Wheel

The other four